I keep hearing
Of the milestones,
we are reach
We reach them in greater frequency
With quieter outrage

A disproportante response.

How can we have turned so blindly
So deafly
When they come louder and faster
With each passing.

With each mention…
New statistic revealed
I hear the voices
Louder in individual unison
Their needs to be heard
Not to be gone
Drowned by platitudes.

More and more
I’ll think
As I hear the word
Milestone
Milestone
Over and over
Droning on and on
the dark points we have reached
I keep struggling
With milestone
The word doesn’t flow
Doesn’t express right.
It feels we are achieving when we reach milestones
And now we are doing anything but...