The day’s news presents a landscape where power moves in multiple directions—some are freed, some detained, some facing illness or displacement with uncertain futures. The verse calls us to consider those without voice or agency in their own circumstances: the gravely ill facing deportation, those caught in conflicts not of their making, the vulnerable at the margins of systems too large for them to navigate alone. This is not a call to judgment, but to witness—to ask whether we are attentive to those who cannot speak for themselves, and whether our own comfort might be built on someone else’s invisibility. What would it mean to open our mouths today, not in certainty, but in advocacy for those appointed to suffer?