This poem is about some of the ways we allow other people, often people we don't see or know almost nothing about, to suffer in order to have our comforts - whether material possessions, truths we don't have to face, or realities of life we prefer someone else deal with for us. I wanted to explore that part of life and remind us that the sacrifices that others make for us are not gone.  They live in those others, who see us.

Emma Wynn (they/them) teaches Philosophy, Religious Studies, LGBTQI+ U.S. History, and Psychology in a boarding high school in CT.  They have been published in multiple magazines and journals and nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.  Their first full-length book, The World is Our Anchor, was published this year by FutureCycle Press.