Saturday, May 17, 2008

Beyond Rationalization

What ultimately connects us?
How are we joined beyond
exterior/superficial/outside ways?
Cells and blood and water;
molecules, atoms, and quarks...
something more ethereal and
difficult to express?

If divinity exists in each of us...
if humanity is something we all share,
regardless of isms or appearances
(or even values/thoughts/beliefs),
how can divisions escalate to points
of horror - of cruelty - of inhumanity?

Beyond hurting, beyond religion,
beyond culture, beyond differences of
skin and body, gender and orientation,
age and ability, family and affiliations...
we share a label standing above all others -
stretching across the landscape of being
to encompass each and every other:
Human. Simply human.
each and every of us all.

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