In a world inflamed by divisiveness...

In a world where otherness is criminalized instead of embraced...
Try to find good.

We are not all the same.
Differences are real and valid.

Because you really are.

Yes, you have experienced life in ways only you fully understand.
You may say you don't know what the expletive you're doing in life, but somewhere, buried in those layers, you know. Everything.

I understand the need to feel heard; seen; validated.

I give you that always, without condition.

But your specialness should not bury me.

Do you see me?
Do you hear me?
Do you know me?

We are the same, in what we need;
To be heard;
To be seen;
To be known.

I embrace your darkness.
Do you embrace mine?
I dance in your radiance.
Do you bask in mine?

I am here.
Though infinitesimally small.
So that you may be unbound and larger than all of life that I see.
But that comes at a cost.
Me.