Love is the sky and the ocean,
smiles and laughter from all places,
revealing hope, diminishing despair,
children brown and black and yellow
and white playing with all others,
making friends, falling in love,
babies beloved, helping those who
need kindness, sharing with those
who do not have enough, extending
arms that become hugs, creating lives
of becoming real selves, no bullets or
bombs, no fighting but delighting in
both differences and same searches
always for peace and well-being,
Seeing and realizing we are one.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS