My Country is Burning

Cindy Bahl
3 min readJun 1, 2020
Photo by Mike Von

By 5pm Sunday I was shaking with fear. Not for myself. But with the knowledge there would be deaths reported by morning, mostly of black protesters. I saw this coming by yesterday afternoon as I read more and more tweets. I agree with the outrage. I am terrified for their safety. This is what our president wants. He wants any excuse to kill them. How did I tie our president to this? He is inflammatory every chance he gets, feeding off of this type…

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Cindy Bahl

Published Poet | Astronomer | Writer | Artist | Seasoned Programmer ~ Pen on chronic pain, mental health, & poetry. Writing projects: memoir & sci-fi novel.