No Them
When fighting for
becomes so intense,
it comes across
as being against.
The strict alignment
leads to further malignment,
each side clinging to pride
deepening
the existing divide,
everyone
convinced they are right
blinded to
what might unite.
The rhetoric
silences
and the silence
screams.
There has to be
something
in between
the spaces where
the pendulum swings.
Can we learn to reach
across the extremes?
'There is no them
There's only us'
– U2, "Invisible"