Imagined Perspectives

achieving harmony

requires

our understanding

~

sometimes

lifetimes of experience

sometimes

intuition (or illusion)

~

our relationships

create unity

we are colours

beside each other

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our perception of reality

all is not as it seems

~

Accept Me

making peace

kissing our imperfections

with

patience

understanding

we’re caressing our limitations

~

again

and

again

~

maybe

centuries from now

we’ll be anonymous names

amongst

billions of stars

~

and

maybe

that

is

our place

~

after all

we

are

only

human

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The Other

treat others

as you’d like

to be treated

~

expectations

dangerous assumptions

we fix on others

~

how could I

possibly know

what you needed

~

your body

your vagina

our love entered

our dead baby

exited

~

as a man

was it wrong

to lust

after you

~

you

needed

closeness

~

without

sex

~

now

I understand

~

Kiss and Tell

it’s interesting when

one’s temple

one’s mind, one’s body

becomes infected

~

I’ve heard

we’re free to chose

our actions

not our consequences

~

self righteousness

is a dangerous game

~

Immigrants

my dad’s parents

three siblings

another on the way

~

from a war

my grandpa learned

the horror

possibility

of nationalism

~

my grandpa chose peace

a new beginning

a new home

~

in 1926

my grandpa chose

a boat

to north america

~

The Great Depression

born in uncertainty

~

a phenomenon

giving rise to fascism

destruction

a second world war

~

the despair felt

by many

never left

throughout their life

~

those years

left a mark

taking generations

to live down

~

I’m listening dad

I’m starting to understand

~