staring into the abyss?

i keep reminding myself that for all my 70 years of life, my worst fears have never been realized… i would love to think that means they never will be, but i know better… with inauguration day approaching, i feel i am standing… we are all standing… at the edge of an abyss… we don’t know how deep it is… we don’t know how chaotic it will be… we don’t know how evil it will be… i expect it will be a level of all those things that i will not like…