Coming to You Soon...

I sit...I self-reflect on what each one is capable of at any given time, at a moments notice...a snap in a thread barely there...a twitch in an otherwise peaceful body of water...a threatening storm cloud drifting alone in a pale blue sky...the barometer hitting so low one can feel the fillings in their teeth...

Justice...elusive, finicky, and as wish-washy as the people who house the courts, walk the streets in uniforms of blue...here for your traffic ticket, gone for your safety...I think back to the penultimate day, waiting for rescue from those I had wrongly trusted, mistakenly put my trust in. Twenty five minutes is a lifetime for someone seeing deaths scythe arcing down, down, down...

For those in the service...yes, this reflects on you as a body...as a whole. You may not be the issue but you go along with the general apathy, the general frustration stating (yes, witnessed by yours truly) there is no point in charging them, they'll be out in a night and back on the streets.

When...how...where...WHO...who will stand for those who cannot stand for themselves...who?

You, me...yes and together we will take a stand and make a difference...

But as the diver fights against the surf, the waves rolling in, the undercurrent, red tides and all manner of creature waiting to take a bite, a taste as you swim for your lives...so too the fight with a body of people who should be standing alongside fighting for you, not against.

Oh, it is time to wake up...time to be the warriors we were meant to be...for the lost, for the infirm, for the child unable to see another day free of pain and usery.

A change is coming...coming your way soon...we will either be swept along in the chaos that is sure to ensue or be a part of the wheel, the engine that creates new policies, new strictures for the hideous beings walking about hiding behind smiles, behind personalities they have stolen from each victim...

Justice...a reckoning...

Yeah...it's time...

The decision becomes clear...through the justice system or circumventing a broken down system that hurts more than it helps...yes, yes this is true my friends...I stand in the gap today and proclaim truth in a world gone slightly mad.

"See, darkness covers the earth,

and thick darkness is over the peoples." Psalm 60:2

This, written thousands of years ago...true today...criminals, beasts, monsters, abusers all doing as they please and walking free to do more damage...who will stand and fight for these souls? I do not know the way...yet...but I am learning...steps to take, plans to make and people to see, speak to and move on...in every area...from the uninformed Victim Services unable to see their role beyond the favour of the men in blue, dropping survivors when questions are too hard to answer...to the men and women working to protect societies upstanding citizens and finally to our Prosecutors, salaries paid by our taxes, taking the easy route and serving plea bargains in place of justice, dismissing breaches of conditions with ease in favour of the accused.

Insidious, cancerous from top to bottom...and worse, lazy and neglectful, uncaring and unmoved.

My friends...may you have ears to hear and eyes to see...every damn day, a child or woman is taken...abused...killed at the hand of their former or present intimate partners.

Justice...coming your way soon.

It is time...time to step off the sidelines and be part of a wave of right, of consequences to heinous acts...

It has been a time of awakening, of perceiving, of awareness of each cog in the wheel slowly grinding out victims, shaming survivors, defaming and dismissing.

No more...no more.

Let us move and have our being with justice in mind...with protection for women and children being mowed down by creatures not fit to live and breathe among the good, the kind, the compassionate.

Let us teach these monsters how society at large views their behaviours with harsher sentences, with crown counsels that care about the fear and hyper-vigilance women/children and some men live with minute by minute.

The understanding that death hovers in the picture...every day. Truth.

I sit in thankfulness for those who love, who accept...who stand alongside, who listen and give compassion in place of judgement, love in place of cruelty and neglect...

My heart weeps with gratitude for those who know, who just get it...oh my friends, you provide safe spaces and places to land when this world gets too heavy, when the pain becomes too much to bear.

Thank you...each one, you change the world we live in to a better place...kings and Queens each one.

May God bless your days and your nights...lending you comfort, peace and compassion...lending you strength and courage in the face of overwhelming fears...lending you a compass to guide your feet when you stop and view your surroundings, alone and lost in place amongst others...

May you find your happy place...your sense of peace...

May you know your worth and your need to be just here, right now, in this space...

God go with you today and each day forward...blessing your days with pockets of joy, bursts of laughter that lighten the load and brighten the day around you.

Go in peace...speak your truth, with grace and dignity...stand for you and watch, oh dear treasures, watch your strength return, see confidence fall upon your shoulders once again...standing tall and walking sure.