How

How?
How do you get up
And get out of bed
And take a shower
And pick out your clothes
And climb into the lift
And get into a cab
And go to work
Push around some papers
Crack incestuous jokes
Come home
Kick off your shoes
Watch the food go round the microwave
And laugh with the friends laugh track
How?

With the
With the
With the
With the wars
And the earth
And the atmosphere
And the heat and the cold and the in-between
How
With the virus
And the pain
And the starvation
And the isolation
And the death
And the death

How
With the forests burning
And the koalas without homes
And the elephants without tusks
And the cattle in cattle farms

And the conflict and the riots
And the flags on top of temples on top of mosques on top of homes
On top of dreams and hopes
All trampled underfoot
In the name of better days
“For the greater good”

How
In a world of nothing
But flashing cycles
Of bad news
On top of bad news
On top of bad news
On top of bad news
On top of - you get the point.

How?
When every atom of every cell of every crevice of your body
Should be screaming, “this is an emergency”
How do you just
How do you just live?

~ Sam