An Apology

What is needed is

not a blanket apology

but one rich in specificity,

the rare recognition of one's complicity

in the ignorings and unrightable wrongs

that arise from our very existence.

More often we don't bother

to see our roles so clearly.

The parts we play seem small.

I am only one, we whisper.

Yet ramifications circle the globe,

touching everything.

All this is true,

and just thinking of what I have left out,

not done,

failed to acknowledge

makes me want to take to my bed

to avoid

inadvertently

doing more harm.

 

 

 

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