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Wandering Brightly · Jan 30, 2026

A Poem About Despair

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Marnina Kammersell · Wandering Brightly

I completed an interview for my dissertation study on PDA and Unschooling this morning, and it was lovely. I feel so lucky to get to do this work that is very personally meaningful while also gutted by the world we’re living in. I’ll be participating in the economic boycott today and am finding other ways to help in our local community. Additionally, I offer you this poem, straight from my insomnia-and-stress-fueled brain to yours.

Despair

I’ll tell you mine

If you’ll tell me yours1

What right do I have to feel this pain

When a billion others

Suffer more than I do

More right than if I were to ignore their suffering

And drown my misgivings

In two-day shipping

“Life is pain, Highness,”

The Princess Bride told us

Still, I didn’t know it would be this way

And what would I have done if I had known

We live in a brutal nation

Which is hidden by modern conveniences

But only to those who don’t choose to see it

Even now-

There’s a new season of Bridgerton!

As ICE disappears our neighbors

We can never be free

Until we are all free

Every last one of us

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We continue on friends. Keep finding ways to make a difference.

-Marni

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