Together

We all hunger and we all sleep
Labels are no way for us to keep
A haven, where we can find a shoulder
to share the burden, to hold each other
In shared confusion, there is comfort
Whilst outdoors it storms, together we slumber

Can I tell you a secret?
We all hold paradox
Can I tell you that I’m seeking
A place where the locks
Fall from our doors?
And we find assurance in our common smallness
We find we were all asking ‘what is it all for?’

Mystery is our constant companion
So I’ll stop pretending I have the answers
Because love is a fragrance that dances
On the breeze of dusk, drifting over our fences and urging us to trust

I will not condone these walls
I will wander into submergence
I will subvert the egotistic education
That we are saviours and that we cannot fall

For I am falling every day
Onto my knees,
And into my fate
Oh how love is shaping my life
But I am no statue, no shining light

Broken vessel
Are not we all?
Yet our pieces mosaic
And we know the call
To unity.

So I’m sorry.
For the labels and my ego
All that segregates our souls
From knowing that we are here to take care of each other
With the little we hold
Though we scarcely know
The implication of hearts undone
The freedom of eyes wide open
And the healing we will find when we let love expand beneath a grip,
which we cannot sustain anyway.

-Remi Fern