You Came for Our Votes—But Not for Our Grief
We mourn in headlines. You vanish in press releases.
It’s Never Your Problem, Is It?
You knock on our doors every election cycle.
Smile wide.
Shake hands like you know the weight they carry.
You promise change—
“A better tomorrow.”
“Safer streets.”
“We hear you.”
But when we bury our children,
you’re nowhere.
No calls.
No visits.
No policies.
Just silence,
dressed up in condolences your staff typed for you.
You speak in soundbites.
You tweet.
You pivot.
You spin.
We scream in silence.
We hold each other over bloodstained backpacks
and crumpled graduation photos.
We light candles that shouldn’t need lighting.
And somehow—
it’s still not your problem.
You quote statistics.
We carry caskets.
You say it’s complicated.
We say it’s too late.
You throw thoughts at us like confetti.
Like that’s supposed to soak up the grief.
But we’ve learned:
when it’s your kid, it’s tragedy.
When it’s ours, it’s Tuesday.
You want our trust.
But you won’t carry our dead.
You won’t stand in the rooms that echo with what-if.
You won’t listen to the sound a parent makes
when the world ends mid-sentence.
We live in those rooms.
You legislate from somewhere safer.
Sanitized. Detached.
We bleed.
You move on.
So no—
we don’t believe you anymore.
Not until you show up
where it hurts.
You came for our votes. But not for our children. And we’re done calling that leadership.
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Sometimes the ache doesn’t move. It lingers. It asks for more. You don’t have to act yet. You can stay here. Feel deeper. Or follow it into something else that hurts in a different shape.
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