Pleading is for those unseen. For those of us, for all of you, who due to something out of their control - the nation they were born in, the body they live in, their sex, their gender, their identity, their class, their family, their skin - have found in life that the acknowledgment of their humanity and the protection of their basic safety and rights is seen as political, divisive, and ultimately, optional. This is for those of you who know the loneliness of living in a world where the society's default is your humanity going unseen, while others are preserved at all costs, especially when that cost is you. Whether it be a global level, a systematic and oppressive level, a local level, or an individualistic level, I see you. I know that hollow space within when your pain is constantly trivialized by those who cut you because they can't feel you bleeding. Of being brutally silenced while the world keeps turning, keeps laughing, keeps living.   It is because you are powerful, not because you are powerless, that they seeked to destroy you, to dehumanize you, to delegitimize you.  I see you.  This is for you, for those of you whose struggles I know, and those of you who have been silenced to the point that I may not even know of your pain. This is for you. This is for me. This is for us,  May we find each other, May we see each other, may we value each other. And may we one day come together with all our differences so we are all  protected, valued, and seen. May none of us get left behind, and may we rise together.


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