Human Is Human

This is harm reduction

Sit down and take a lesson

On how to advocate for somebody else

A movement and a mission with leveled up compassion

Reaching to raise vulnerable voices

2016

My friends and I had a reckoning

With oranges and waters in hand

We headed into the wind

Skid Row, Los Angeles, CA

A man named David, he was my age

Stuck in an old wheelchair

I asked him why he was here

He said that he'd been evicted

He only wished for a one-way to Dayton bus ticket

That day, I had no rеsources I could give him

We both criеd at the circumstances we'd been given

One hundred dollars could have changed his situation

I didn't even have ten

I really hope you listen, we all deserve some kindness

In every way we're in, human is human

A fellow punker, indeed

Came to LA in a lot of need

Asking for help from the scene

We didn't let him end up on the street

In his last night of shame and stigma

He used alone and overdosed, leaving a cruel enigma

Afraid to let us know that he was using

Or to ask for safety in his community

He died alone at the peak of his new beginning

With unanswered questions

It's controversy, these NIMBY'S want to shed some blood

Against those in need from poverty and the war on drugs

We all need a hug

We give out Naloxone and brand new needles

Meet people where they're at, give them hope so they can heal

These exchanges and conversations are the real

Change in the world

We've all been hurt

And we all need help