-I am stuck in the middle-

I am not blue or red, left or right, flawless or fallacious. I don’t think in blacks and whites or in terms of ‘us versus them’. I don’t hold onto to pessimistic realism or buoyant spirituality.

But, I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. I’ve been dissonant and I’ve been compatible. I’ve been bias and I’ve been fair. I’ve been hateful and I’ve been loving. I’ve been bigoted and I’ve been open-minded. I’ve been manipulated and I’ve been ascendant.

I’ve been a lot of things while sitting in the middle, but I’ve also seen a lot of things from here, watching groups of people that have been trained to hate one another become victimized by fear. Weakening, their cognitive dissonance grows and manifests itself into fallicious truths. All sides, lost in the facts only valid to the groups that they’ve become a part of, disabled with an inability to see themselves for themselves.

Absent minded in their retaliation to diversity and fearful in their own reflection, they deviate from being the very thing that they all share as living and breathing, flesh and blood, malleable and stubborn…human beings.