<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0);">UNITY:</span> EMBRACE YOUR TRUE COLORS, END BULLYING AND STOP JUDGING ONE ANOTHER AND OURSELVES.</p> <p><br></p> <p>I know the blood runs in your veins, I know my blood runs just the same, </p> <p>Your heart it feels the warmth of love, Your eyes they see the rising sun, </p> <p>Your hand can touch and feel mine too, For I'm a person just like you </p> <p>No matter where I may be born, No matter what my color warn, </p> <p>No matter how my face has shape, I feel the sorrow, love and hate, </p> <p>For I can see the moving clouds, The clouds they cry with tears of pain, </p> <p>To see beneath them - such a shame, How each and every person is </p> <p>to one another throughout the years… </p> <p><br></p> <p>Within your shoes please place your feet, </p> <p>And take the steps while I walk the streets, </p> <p>You'll feel the blisters as I walk, The words I whisper as I talk, </p> <p>You'll see the world just as I see, So please my friend just let me be, </p> <p>The person that I am inside, Please don't make me run and hide, </p> <p><br></p> <p>Allow your visions to be clear, </p> <p>And listen... to the words you hear, </p> <p>All I ask.... is to be your friend,</p> <p>And embrace our true colors until the end, </p> <p>We're all people you and me, </p> <p>In this world together we </p> <p>can walk united forever free…</p> <p><br></p> <p>Deborah Berry © 1992 </p> <p><br></p>

<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">AN INSPIRED JOURNEY FROM THE DARK SIDE OF GRIEF INTO THE LOVE  OF INFINITE LIGHT</span></p> <p><b><u>MY GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT</u></b></p> <p><br></p> <p>You are being Called,<br></p> <p>Can you hear me?</p> <p><br></p> <p>In the cries of sleep I wrestle in the night,</p> <p>He passed, she transcended and now,</p> <p>I am lost in the darkness...</p> <p><br></p> <p>I am blind in loss and lost in the wake,</p> <p>Searching for meaning,</p> <p>Horrendously feeling, nothingness...</p> <p><br></p> <p>Sick to my heart the ache is everything,</p> <p>All I can taste and smell is the unknown,</p> <p>The vast persistence of death reminds me,</p> <p>I am alone, I am all by myself, sinking,</p> <p>Missing in the gulp, i think of the last breath...</p> <p><br></p> <p>At peace I hope, </p> <p>In freedom,</p> <p>My grief is not of you or of love, </p> <p>But the loss of love,</p> <p>My sadness is mine...</p> <p><br></p> <p>You deserted our dreams, </p> <p>All we envisioned, all we had lived, </p> <p>Can you hear me?</p> <p><br></p> <p>A guardian, in the far and unseen,</p> <p>Hello, do you feel me?</p> <p>You are the keeper of the invisible,</p> <p>To the stairway to heaven,</p> <p>The guardian of light,</p> <p>Shining bright, I want to see you,</p> <p>Feel and touch you, </p> <p>Touch me, free me...</p> <p><br></p> <p>My guardian,</p> <p>Illuminate, brighten my heart,</p> <p>Heal my pain, I surrender my suffering</p> <p>Hear I remain, </p> <p>While you were called...</p> <p><br></p> <p>Hello my guardian</p> <p>My light in the dark,</p> <p>I see it now,</p> <p>Why you transcended...</p> <p><br></p> <p>You are infinite,</p> <p>Grief is not the stairway to heaven,</p> <p>Grief is the entrance of light,</p> <p>The beam from within, </p> <p>To heal and appeal the suffering,</p> <p>To transcend it all from here...</p> <p><br></p> <p>I, you and me,</p> <p>The light that touches the world,</p> <p>We have been called to unite!</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><i>Deborah Berry - </i></p> <p>April 2020</p>