Rising inside

Rising within is a rumble. A growl. A roar.

It is ours and not ours. It is within us and yet beyond our being. It is both greater than our own experience and of our experience.

It is from the knowing. The being seen. The connecting to those parts of that have been buried and hidden and ignored.

Do you feel this rumble? This growl? This roar?

Within us is an anger, a frustration, a furor, bubbling and boiling. It did not start with us, with our experiences, and yet it has been fed by our life, what we have done and not done and what has been done to us.

It is fed by our friends and chosen family, as we witness their lives, as we see their pains and joys.

It is fed by our mothers, and their mothers, and their mothers. And their neighbors and friends and family.

It is fed by women, CIS, trans, and non-binary, we’ve never met but read about or read their own words or saw photographs or news footage of.

It is fed by people we’ve never seen or heard.

This rumble. This growl. This roar.

This righteous…