un.feeling

if you had a heart you cried if

you had a heart you shouted out

against the unspeakable 

horror if you

if you had a heart it broke and maybe 

you could not control yourself 

for a while

grieving these systemic patterns 

you could not bear to remain

orderly

calm

respectable

peaceful

out on the streets

where a drop became many

a stream became a river 

an ocean of

feeling
against the unfeeling

dredging up a particle of hope

there to see where
we were not
alone