We are fucked.

When my newsfeed is full of dead and dying babies

When all you have to do is scroll down to escape an image

of torture, of suffering

when a polar bear clinging to ice looks cute

when another bomb is just another bomb

when the bloodied face of a mother looking for her child

in a pile of rubble

seems ordinary

when our 'democracies' use voicemail and bullet proof cars  to 'reach the people'

when we don't stop to listen to the birds or the frogs or the elephants who are all screaming at us to STOP what we are doing

then i start to lose hope

i smile at everyone i meet

i try to give humanity a chance to prove herself

but holy fuck it's getting hard