We live in a world where prayer is rejected. We live in a world where evil is forced to be consumed by the every sense humankind can absorb. This just cannot be.
Those who disagree, see the world through this lens. Just for a moment:
Through my eyes, I wish I didn’t see anger and resentment toward people who should be seen as equal despite the color of their skin,
Through my ears, I wish I didn’t hear conversations of disdain and contempt toward people who’s beliefs are different than someone else’s within,
Through my hands, I wish I didn’t feel cold and detached souls against people who pray for everyone to feel whole again, Amen,
Through my nose, I wish I didn’t smell gunpowder and flames that separate justice from the gunmen, fear dripping down our chin,
Through my tongue, I wish I didn’t taste bitterness and acidity directed to the defeated, those who taste the evil, again and again.
Redundancy is necessary
because of what is at stake,
The “divided” United,
we’re building a cemetery,
A community that lacks communion-
is one that is bound to break,
A free country,
freely killing those that have peace because of what they make.
We solved our past challenges
and now we’re challenging that past,
the one we “left behind”
to avoid future attacks.
We choose the life we live and this is not what we want.
No need for laws and regulations to be taught
to understand that this community is not the one we sought.
I don’t know much but I do know this,
I want better for this country and I want better for humanity. We are all humans; We are born with intent to create and build, and a purpose to serve and help. We are born with strength and we are born unique. We are born differently to share our experiences with our neighbors, not to give them a reason to fear diversity.
I want my life to look different.
The weight of the world is on my heart,
and it is time we remove the cement that has calloused our community.
-Anna Hoerner
WordswithAnna 
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