election night

Here we stand on the edge, below us a rocky and perilous cliff face with which survival is impossible. We have willingly chosen to make this leap, smiling as we fall into the dark below.

That darkness is fascism, to be blatantly obvious about my own analogy, as if that wasn't obvious already.

Today has been unprecedented and honestly unexpected in the arrival of a complete red wave, and while sitting and watching coverage of the election I could not help but wonder about the moment we have found ourselves in and its consequences for the future.

It feels as if vivid images showing crowds of mass deportation signs are masking the intention of an America clad in white robes. I believe this will be studied for generations to come, as the early signs of the fall of the planet's biggest empire.

I know I can be quite “doom and gloom” in my writing style, however I find it hard not to see that we are accelerating at near the speed of light towards both an inevitable rise of true, terrifying fascism and the subsequent end of our nation that comes with it.

What lies beyond this end? 

After the fires have died out, what will the flowers that grow here look like? 

Will the roses of revolution bloom in fields of freedom? 

Will the echoes of an empire in decay signal the end of an era of capitalism?

Or will history repeat its vicious loop, revealing our inability to learn?

Where will I be in this future unwritten? 

Selfishly, maybe I view this insanity with excitement, a feeling that freedom is coming that allows my escape from this cage. Perhaps what should be a feeling of fear is instead replaced with a drive for change?

I am not as naìve as to think that everything will all go perfectly. I know there will be struggle, I certainly know that the bad will come many times before we can even begin to arrive at the good.

But in the end, I can only hope and believe that we will be alright. I choose, even if it's in contrast to my written character, to have faith in humanity. 

I choose to see a future written in hope and love.