I breathe
My heart beats
Blood flows through my veins
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The wind bites my face
The sun warms my skin
The rain covers me in coldness
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I feel the same pain
I cry the same tears
I am trapped by the cruel knife of time
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Equality is not a concept
It is not a theory
Or a social action
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It is the way you look at each other
The way you value each other
The way you accept each other
The way you listen to each other
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Celebrate who you are
Dance with the divine
Listen to the melody of freedom
Taste the acceptance of love
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Every day is a day to embrace who you are
Every day is a day to learn
To listen
To change.
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Written for Poets United – Women’s Day
Life From A Park Bench 
…every day is amazing when you know how to accept, give & trust…. i like your thoughts about equality… it is indeed It is the way you look at each other…the way you value each other..the way you accept each other…the way you listen to each other… it is all that & more… if we are all can think like this then what a better world we can have to live with… very beautiful and inspiring to read… thank you… smiles…
yep real men are feminists
” Equality is not a concept
It is not a theory
Or a social action ”
I like this point you made here, plus what follows. It is all in how you look at each other, listen, treat one another. Wise poem here, Alan.
Every day is an invitation to change. Sadly, many of us do not accept the invitation.
Yes!
Learn. Listen. Change. Those are vital to personal evolution, vital to achieving one’s potential.
It is the way you look at each other
The way you value each other
The way you accept each other
The way you listen to each other
so true in that man….we often think of it as tangible things…but that is a great definition of it…and i am all for celebrating who you are….
Yes. I just commented somewhere else. It is about society and women themselves respecting, listening, valuing choices. That is equality.
I absolutely adore this poem – a mantra for seeing each other as humans, rather than as gender-specific. Very beautifully written. My fave response to the prompt, kiddo! And written by a man. Yippee! Such awareness is to be celebrated.
loved the attitude, perceptions and the positive energy stemming out of this piece!
Well said!
yes yes yes, this is perfect
Sweet , simple and beautiful compliments 🙂
Thank you !