Driven to Tears
Reflections on Humanity: Driven to Tears by The Police
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How can you say that you're not responsible?
Questioning accountability and denying responsibility for a situation.
What does it have to do with me?
Disassociating oneself from the issue, asking how it's relevant.
What is my reaction, what should it be?
Reflecting on personal emotions and the appropriate response.
Confronted by this latest atrocity
Feeling confronted by the most recent horrifying event.
Driven to tears
Repeatedly expressing being pushed or forced into a state of emotional distress.
Driven to tears
-Driven to tears
-Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
Shame and guilt overwhelming to the point of hiding one's face.
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Existing comfortably now feels shallow and without meaning.
Seems that when some innocent die
Observing the death of innocents and the inadequate response they receive.
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Recognition that society only memorializes tragedies through media coverage.
Too many cameras and not enough food
Commenting on excessive attention to trivial matters (cameras) over essential needs (food).
'Cause this is what we've seen
Suggesting that the observed situation is the reality we face.
Driven to tears
Reiterating the feeling of being pushed to an emotional breaking point.
Driven to tears
-Driven to tears
-Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
Expressing the futility of protesting, feeling unheard.
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do
Expressing uncertainty about the future and a lack of direction in resolving issues.
Driven to tears
Re-emphasizing the emotional distress experienced.
Driven to tears
-Driven to tears
-Driven to tears
Continued emphasis on being overwhelmed emotionally, driven to tears.
Driven to tears
-Driven to tears, driven to tears
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