PUT DOWN

"PUT DOWN"
(author unknown)

Put down what you're doing. Right now.

The knife that cuts the vegetables.

The tool that carves your craft.

The camera that captures your average scene.

Put down what you're doing. Right now.

The pen that writes the list.

The spoon that cools the soup.

The hand that blends the hot and the cold of the bath water so that her tiny feet don't feel a shock on the first dip.

Put down what you're doing right now.

The text that puts the finishing touches

To Saturday nights plans.

So that we can gather our small talk around elephants in rooms that grow bigger and bigger.

As we talk smaller and smaller.

Children are not for resilience

Or for unthinkable trauma

That actually, we must think of.

Or for being trapped in a living nightmare that they'd ordinarily never even have a sleeping nightmare about.

Put down what you're doing right now.

The child you lay to sleep

On silky comforting pillows

After a carefully heated bath.

As she lays her baby down.

On hard surface

The 7 thousandth of 7 weeks.

The wretched scream from the gut of a grieving mother,

Trapped in inescapable horror.

Put down the small words in the small talk

Of your easy Saturday night.

Put down the discomfort you feel when you think of it.

Put down the hard feeling generated by images.

Put down your silence

The echoes of which obliterate compassion.

Put down your silence.

The echoes of which collude shame.

And lift up your courage

To share the image that needs to be shared.

And lift up your solidarity

To offer a parent that needs your offering.

And lift up your heart

To open it to truth.

You are human. They are human.

We are human.

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