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By LINDA GERMAIN
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And puts us in our earth suits, a transportation for our spirits
To help us get around from birth until we leave for Heaven.
We do not come in perfect sets like luggage, even twins.
Some of us may speak in gliding vowels through honeysuckle roses
While others talk by dropping that “r” and adding an “a”
Or sounding twangy or gangy or whiny
Or in happy-rappy newspeak modern or the Mother Queen’s Olde English.
Carnivore or vegan, sugar or none, fancy feasts or simple fare
We are not required to be alike from head to toe or sell our souls
To fit right in or get kicked out when drums we march to disagree in cadence
To what “they” say we must do in lockstep even against the truth.
Just because some folks have symbols and inky pictures
Burned into their hides and rings and things hanging from
Their tongues and brows and other places tender
Doesn’t mean we all surrender to the pressure.
My jeans are not ripped in strips and full of holes at knees
But sensible and clean and maybe even ironed on good days
But fashion does not get to tell me how that goes
Or get to laugh at wide or skinny legs or baggy versus not-so-much.
I don’t need fingernails of green or blue, or purple hair.
If that is your thing, please proceed I will not blink but
I do not understand the five-inch heels that do nothing for one’s back or feet
And are dangerous if you need to run.
My purse is to tote my stuff, not scream rich girl gone goofy
And lauded for advertising over-priced accessories
From the pusher of the fashion-silly addictions to fill
Closets and shelves with shoes and bags and all coordinates.
I am not obliged to agree with you, nor you with me,
But to always be civil and kind as neighbors
Never sinking to vitriol or hate because our politics are not in sync or we
Go to different churches or none at all.
Love means we do not have to match except in respect and gentle answers
Even when you think I’m wrong, based on your worldly perceptions and when
I know you are misguided based on what is written in God’s Word
It behooves me not to rush in where those angels fear to tread.
But, no matter how our outsides or insides differ,
No matter what we hang on these bodies or how ignorant or wise,
I will keep my eyes on Jesus and love you (whether or not we reflect the same in mirrors)
And pray that someday the important things will become beautifully crystal clear.
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