Christ sacrificed
skin,
speech,
defense,
and life —
it is,
perhaps,
the least we can do
to sacrifice
our impulse
to dominate
in argument
and put
in its place
prayer.
Tag: humanity
Character
You don’t just rise in the morning with your character; it’s formed and reformed every day, pressed together, pulled apart, and recreated by your
company
connections
music
moments
books
browsers
paths
and poisons.
Edible
And I guess
we’re all
edible,
letting ourselves be
(or yet being able to stop from being)
devoured by our
expectations,
environment,
and
egos,
being swallowed whole
by the earth
and its many woes.
Rebellion
We all carry hearts
that want to
resist
rebel
riot —
let our rebellion
be against inequality,
disrupting a system
that never saw
our defiant hearts
coming
for it.
Misunderstood
How can all of our hearts
drum the same, ironic beat:
i’m misunderstood
i’m misunderstood
i’m misunderstood
-L.M.G.
Universal
As long as
the sun warms our skin,
the flakes give it chill,
and the fire scars it,
it is the same.
Why
We’ve never
just been
beings of
how,
but things
of why.
Different
We all
want
love,
purpose,
good food,
and understanding,
yet we
somehow
manufacture
differences
between us.
Art
It is
often
only through
the lens of art
that we can
understand the world.
Firestone Friday: Poem XXIII
None of us
thinks “I am evil,”
yet
the world
is full
of the stuff.
