Should I oppose you

or embrace you?

If I invite you in to my heart,

will you tear it apart?

Everywhere we look

people are divided,

chasms as wide as canyons--

in the home, in the pinnacles of power, on the streets--

division like a long complicated  quandary,

numbers & symbols filling up the chalkboard

with no answer in sight,

undecipherable codes of confusion.

The solution?

Well, we all know that old tired word that never loses its vibrancy--

Love.

So of course I embrace you--

we look for our common spaces,

we enter there,

& embrace.