Wakefulness from nightmares does not feel safe,
nor clearly defines the life we make,
nor effortlessly guides the steps to take
while we try to stay awake
the day after nightmares reign.
The last person to fear, by those whose dreams allow
peace, security, joy and love…somehow…
are those of us who wake from dreams with screams,
and recognize the loss of hope
which forces us to stay woke
lest we descend once again
into nightmares which never end.
The American dream may be the goal
of those who dream peacefully all night long,
as well as those whose dreams unfold
as nightmares left from days of old,
and from the streets left bare
by poverty, racism and despair.
Waking cannot be a sin
for only those whose dreams begin
in sorrow and pain.
Does not every one of us awake?
Are only those who dream sweet dreams
allowed to waken in the morning light
and not have too explain
it is their right
to stay awake?
Attacking those who awake from nightmares
instead of dreams may merely be a way
to keep some within the nightmare world
any sane person would hope to flee.
We are each entitled to awake and greet the day.
Dreamers of dreams or nightmares,
we are all the same.
I am I, and you are you, when we are asleep.
And, when we wake. I am you and you are me,
those who waken to the same day
after long nights of life on display.
in nightmares or in dreams.
Then, morning dawns with sun’s fierce stroke.
Suddenly, we are both woke.
annarino writes 
State’s Rights and Fascist Court ?
I just ate an entire bag of Milano double dark chocolate cookies. Better that than crying in outrage that separation of church and state has overcome our constitutional rights as white politicians within the Republican Party exploit the personal faith of voters to retain their control of government. Why? Because of their racism and sexism, and gender fears. And, to allow corporate and private wealth to stay in power through them, personally rewarding them financially and supporting filling their campaign chests.
These protagonists blocked the Equal Rights Amendment for women in my youth. Women finally got the right to vote but it and other civil rights have never explicitly been assured. This is one reason the privacy rights under the constitution was used to explain why women have a legal civil right to decide their health care rights and family planning rights.
This same reasoning was used to protect a couple’s right to use birth control. That right is now also facing elimination according to Justice Thomas’ dissent.
The Supreme Court is our greatest and final protector of our freedoms and civil rights. Today, the court threw women to the wolves. They invaded the privacy right of a woman to her own body. They destroyed a woman’s right to safeguard her mental and physical health. Her rights no longer belong to her. They belong to state legislatures. women no longer have rights equal to men in this nation.
We have been here before. Despite the end of enslavement of African-Americans recognition of their civil rights took another 100 years to secure. And, those rights, including the right to vote are again, still, under siege. The Voting Rights Act has been eviscerated. Will the supreme Court’s States Rights Rule now be applied to any individual’s right to equality and freedoms? This case opens that door. The decision today directs us through that door.
The violence and intimidation against women is now supported by our Supreme Court, using its judicial powers. I fear it will soon be the same for people of color, LGBTQT community … indeed any group the white supremacist leaders supported by our churches think they have a right to control.
Today’s decision is far worse than overturning abortion rights. It overturns equal rights. I fear it is not only women who are under threat. Our very identity as a free society , as an American society, was destroyed today.
I am out of cookies. Out of words. Only tears remain. Fascist Court? Not usually 2 words that go together. They do now!
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