We’ve been left for dead! We’ve been left unalive! We’ve been double-crossed! We’ve double-crossed ourselves – our own hope!
We expected too much – of course we did. We thought we could do too much. We thought something might open. A door. A chance. We thought … what did we think? That all this barbarism might end?
And instead? Blows to the head. Blows to our lives. Crushedness.