I used to live in St. Paul, Minnesota. It frustrates me to be unable to join the protests, the singing throngs in the streets of Minneapolis. To be on the other side of the world with a heart this heavy. Kia kaha Minnesota. Let your outrage bleed all the way to Washington DC.

Renee and Alex took the shots
But we all bleed out.
Out of homes and businesses,
Humanity puddles on icy pavement,
Floods the streets in protest.

When one bleeds out,
We all bleed out.
Compassion spills from keyboards 
Into the flow
Of online vitriol.
Humanity seeths,
Bristles with outrage.

My pen writes in blood
Blood spilled
Blood boiling
Blood coursing through
A heart
A heart
A heart
That bleeds out.

When one bleeds out,
We all bleed out.