{"id":1044,"date":"2021-12-15T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:10:34","slug":"you-me-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/2021\/12\/15\/you-me-us\/","title":{"rendered":"You Me Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Louise Taylor – PhD Candidate with School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University Belfast<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are another me and I see you well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wince at your inaction, your inertia, your intangible legacy of non-plussed, nonchalance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your mysteriously, vibrantly, deafeningly silent, non- participation in anarchic anti-apocalyptic, protests for life preservation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share your secrets, share your wisdom, bestow me with your disconnection, resurrection and inane, rumblings and fumblings of non-love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I raucously rage and cognitively riot at your carelessness, your carefreeness, your blissful, wistful ignorance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You breathe, I breathe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You bleed, I bleed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You die, I die<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see YOU clearly and not at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business as usual or despair all around<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are each other and we are dangerously alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am mad, many know it, few disbelieve it and I wholeheartedly embrace it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This madness is my haven, because the sea of sentiments are swishing, swirling and unleashing a wildness that only a mother can contain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother – the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She holds me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She scolds me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She guides ME home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho?\u201d she challenges \u201cCould be sane at a time like this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the witches cackle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the unruly women rise like the swelling, pulsating, ravenous, furious seas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the emotions explode forth and allow the oppressed, battered, bruised and beaten feminine to rip through my mind, my body and my soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need it now more than ever- we need mad warrior women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need maternal wrath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am me, I am you, I am us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDisturb the comfortable\u201d the priest declared in our earth heating meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goosebumps made their presence known, to show me the way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must disrupt, disobey, alarm and disarm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must impede, confront, alter, revolutionise and transcend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earth is not in danger, we are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earth will persevere, we won\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earth has been whispering and now she wails- like a banshee she is wailing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually she will weep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She warned us, she kept telling us, she tried to save us, but we didn\u2019t listen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kept raping, pillaging, murdering, hoarding and rewarding ourselves for harming our mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no US when we keep doing this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who killed us in the end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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