Who am I

Am I my certainties?

My positions,

My beliefs,

My interpretations?

 

My weaknesses?

 

My weaknesses sitting next to me,

Can I embrace them?

Howling now

Can I embrace them?

Wind grew stronger

Can I embrace them?

Far off the in the distance . . .

No

I can not conform to the assumptions made about me

My weaknesses, I embrace

But they can not thwart me from being a person

I don’t want to lose what I have, what I could be

 

I am willing to admit

THEY

Are essential to our society; they who think differently have a right

WE

Are essential to our society; We are all so different and to some that is scary

We’re not a many sided-whole

when we’re alone

 

But together we divide

My curiosity sitting next to me,

Terrified of society, with us inside it

Can I embrace it?

Howling now

Can I embrace it?

Wind grew stronger

Can I embrace it?

Rising . . .

 

We’re not capable of figuring things out alone

Curiosity is essential to the survival of our society

WE and THEY:

Essential to the survival of our society

But together we divide

Curiosity is a storm

Small and surprisingly quiet

Stepping in

Moving to the corner that is the weakest

 

Then

 

Screaming at our complex world,

Where we pretend to agree with one another

We can not be superficial in our curiosity

 

YOU are essential to the survival of our society:

Your certainties, your positions, your beliefs, your interpretations, your weaknesses

Listen more,

Not less

Challenge the system

Add to the storm

Curiosity

 

You and I.

THEM and WE.

This is how the world changes, we change it together

But we are limited,

Fearful of the storm of curiosity

Why?

Children holding hands

In the storm of curiosity,

In the wind of weaknesses,

A rich tapestry of viewpoints

 

There were so many storms, but we never ran away

A city, a community

Clasping hands

Rocked again by the storm