31 4 21 A Sonnet

What deserves protection, love, and care?

And what do we reject and cast aside?

In building a society that’s fair

Do differences unite us or divide?

The prejudice that poisons our minds

Builds prisons, metaphorical and real

Where lives are lost or squandered to our blinds

Are we, or they, more difficult to heal?

For gender, race or disability

Our preconceptions must be ripped apart

We’ll build a world of Possibility

And give our children’s world a better heart

It isn’t easy now, nor ever was

To herald Love and Justice in one’s Cause