Standing In Your Shoes

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To bear witness is not always to shout—it can be to listen, to stand beside, to speak only when it amplifies the unheard.

We are made to endure.

The weight of my paperweight
rests heavy on a page—
your justice denied
in yesterday’s newsprint.

I looked away.
And in my silence,
I became
part of the harm.



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