DIVERSITY

“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me.
Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man.
For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.” 

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I know there is strength in the differences between us.
I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” 

― Ani DiFranco

“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

                                                     It seems to me these days confusion lies

                                                     in organizing life – a deeper need

                                                     for order fights a more innate desire

                                                     for wildness, novelty, for something else.

                                                     These private conflicts interrupt my mind

                                                      as I meander through the boxed debris

                                                      and souvenirs of seventy one years.

                                                      I stack the letters, cards, receipts in neat

                                                      and separate stacks – to toss, but most to keep.

                                                     The things to go lack worth; I prize unique.

                                                     The letters, cards, and photographs I store

                                                      hold images and memories that prove

                                                      I breathed, I loved, was loved; I wrote.

Posted for the second anniversary of d’VersePoets Pub – a place of poetry where I am honored to share my work with a world of diverse poets writing diverse poems about their unique lives. Here’s to many more!