Joyful Ruins

Underneath it all

we’re all just flesh and bone

living by a heart beat

breaths in and out

In the end

we’re all made

of dreams and aches

hopes and pain

So when I look at you

and see a different skin color

When I know you may

be a woman in a man

or you dress in clothes

that show off

you choose to live without restraint

When I hear about

a person

vastly different than me

a person I was taught to “fix”

that is not what I see

Instead I see me

I see me underneath

even the worst of us

is a human

soft

breakable

fearful

undearneath it all

So in the end

we are all the same

and we deserve

the same love

the same dignity