Why do we write?

We write for a voice

To sing for the mother who cradles her babe

To cry with the pain of a newborn

To wonder and laugh like children again.

We write so as to never bury

our humanity between sheets of

perfomative division

to understand the crimes you or I

could have would have committed.

We write to defend and honour

The screams of those whose freedom whose love whose lives

were are being will be stolen

We write for the lovers,

for the sisters and brothers and the women

and the wxmen and wimmin and the men and the mxn.

for the whispers of comfort

for the voice of reason

for the delight and amusement of a moment

We write so that the way you looked that night

with the starlight in your eyes

will be recorded and accounted and reminded.

We write for compassion, we write for love

we write for a fight, we write for pain

for anger for rights for justice.

We write to remember,

We write to forget,

We write because we will not go quietly.