Tagged: humankind

whomever said lambs

whomever said lambs
to the slaughter had little
imagination

of the cruelty that men could
inflict upon other men
.
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in between cultures

in between cultures
are the stuff dreams are made of –
take what you need, leave

the rest, it takes a whole bunch of
we to become all-embracing
.
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we are less layered

we are less layered
than we profess to be, more
layered than we can

fathom – in between, we try
to understand each other
.
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at the end, it will

at the end, it will
be inevitable – we will
all come together,

regardless of shape, color,
the size of our pocketbooks
.
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the struggle to be

the struggle to be
fully human and to see
that others are full-

ly human plays out over
and over – do we ever learn?
.
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perhaps we are

perhaps we are
built
to scale
time and,
harnessed
together,
your fall
becomes
my fall
.
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let’s categorize

let’s categorize
things until the cows come home –
forge our biases
.
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january is

january is
a placebo – for a moment,
we are unflinching
.
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around the world in

around the world in
thirty-eight time zones, we string
our multiple new

years to dangle around our
wrists, a celebration, chain-linked
.
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we’ve always wrinkled

we’ve always wrinkled
in all the right places, age
has nothing on us
.
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