"courtroom poet" is something that should be part of every system. i thank the Universe for you, anyakara, and for your insights and your contribution to the world.
over here making me cry on a Monday 🥹 (had to double check the day after I typed that!)
so grateful for you and excited to become a better poet with all you share with me! What a different world we would be living in if we had poets assigned as integral parts of our systems???
There’s something deeply human in the way this stays beside what most systems try not to see.
The image of that grandmother lost in the hallway carries more truth about the violence of bureaucracy than many long arguments ever could. Not dramatic violence, but the quieter kind that leaves people confused, small, and alone while life-changing decisions move around them in language they cannot enter.
And I think the idea of becoming a “courtroom poet” instead of only a witness is beautiful. Not to explain the system, but to keep the humanity inside it from disappearing completely.
Thank you Antonio for sharing this beautiful reflection, I love how you write that "this stays beside what most systems try not to see." That puts to words so well what I hope my writing and presence can be in this fight for a better world, something that invites us to come alongside and stay long enough to see what's underneath that keeps these systems perpetuating harm for generations and far beyond the individual standing in front of us.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts, it means so very much to me 🙏
"courtroom poet" is something that should be part of every system. i thank the Universe for you, anyakara, and for your insights and your contribution to the world.
over here making me cry on a Monday 🥹 (had to double check the day after I typed that!)
so grateful for you and excited to become a better poet with all you share with me! What a different world we would be living in if we had poets assigned as integral parts of our systems???
(((hug)))
There’s something deeply human in the way this stays beside what most systems try not to see.
The image of that grandmother lost in the hallway carries more truth about the violence of bureaucracy than many long arguments ever could. Not dramatic violence, but the quieter kind that leaves people confused, small, and alone while life-changing decisions move around them in language they cannot enter.
And I think the idea of becoming a “courtroom poet” instead of only a witness is beautiful. Not to explain the system, but to keep the humanity inside it from disappearing completely.
Thank you Antonio for sharing this beautiful reflection, I love how you write that "this stays beside what most systems try not to see." That puts to words so well what I hope my writing and presence can be in this fight for a better world, something that invites us to come alongside and stay long enough to see what's underneath that keeps these systems perpetuating harm for generations and far beyond the individual standing in front of us.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts, it means so very much to me 🙏