What Matters

Is attention and the growing storm
But it’s been there all along.
How much hate grew in them, tall, was learned, in order to not protect a child.

To let the darkness be more, to suffocate, and worse, four days,
For them to want her to suffer
                                                 for them to refuse to see a beloved girl

Across the world I am stripped of words
To even say one thing is not enough
To say nothing is worse

Sejal Shah, Kirin Makker