Together We are Everything

 

When I listen to the world

I hear secrets 

resting in the air around us

A whisper that cannot be made out 

then 

silence

Cruel

painful

sorrowful silence

 

But I also hear hope

it announces itself with uplifting music and bright vivid colors

it shows the world that

it’s okay to be different 

In fact 

it is amazing 

to stand out

 

When I look at the world

I see pain

resting like a shaggy blanket 

on chocolate colored shoulders

heavy 

with anger

and wet

with tears

 

But I also see

the light of gratitude

it guides the hungry and poor on

teaches them to uncurl their withered bodies 

and stand back up 

 

Listen to these words

I am begging you

There are differences that divide us

I would be lying if I said there wasn’t

But their are also similarities 

that unite us

We need

to learn to push past the labels that put us in boxes

We need 

to learn to love peoples differences instead of scolding people for them

We need 

to learn to work together as one

because together

we are everything

Listen these words 

I am begging you

 

Because the words to this poem 

change 

everything