If love is a universal desire
Why is it not universally accepted?
Language can be a barrier between nations.
Estrangement a barrier between relatives.
Distance a barrier between cities.
Religion? Beliefs?
They may be different in foundation
But are united through humanity.
Love – an undying desire
A wish every man, woman, child seeks to fulfill.
If this is true –and it is
Then why the disagreement
Why punish love?
If the need for love is universal
Why does power attempt to control it?
Love is love
Black/black/white/black/white/white
If it’s love, it’s love
Male/male/female/male/female/female
Does it matter what’s under the skin
Look within
Matter/matter/mass/matter/mass/mass
Its all the same.

inspired by Laurel by Alice Walker

"Full House"

Intelligence is overrated
If this is where it’s gotten us
Intolerance under one roof,
Prejudice with syrup on top,
Racism in the weekly laundry
Gendercide on the grocery list
Hatred and a cup of tea
Sexism shelved next to OJ
Party on Sunday
Vacuum all you want
That stain won’t come out
Generations have overstepped it like part of the carpet
Why notice now?
Dinner with a side of damage
Come one, come all

inspired by Allen Ginsberg

Always poor – why try
Women work for their children
And die trying

inspired by Women on the Breadlines



Red
Blood, the concrete foundation

White
The pale face of hunger

Blue
Hope drowned in despair

inspired by Carved in the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants

Modern World

Alone
With a thousand faces there
Two thousand eyes
Staring but not seeing
Empty
In a room filled to capacity
Crowded, jostled against the wall,
Air is impossible to obtain
Surrounded
In a fictitious society
Emotion submerged or erased
An audience of drones
Forgotten
The world the way it was
A secret awaiting discovery
Hope for the future

inspired by In Steel Clouds

Fruitful future fought for
Redemption
Eternal enticement
Enforced exertion, exhaustion ensues
Death – damned descendents despair
Omniscient oppression
Malicious manufactory

inspired by Christ in Concrete and Testimony