Gratitude is seeking no vengeance for loss, no reconciliation for your pain just to turn a degree or two so you can see the ways you are being held right now. Right now you are being given grace. Right now the light awaits for your eyes to be the eyes that see or the ears that hear. Gratitude is grace. Gratitude is peace in the storm of hate. Gratitude is accepting the fate of death still striving for life and poetry and love and knowledge. We take what we take