November 23rd: a poem: all we want

all we want is to
love
without constraint
without fear
without hate

without knowing our love
is circumstantial based on our
financials
political
sexual
social
understandings of who we’ve been
to allot us a box to
sit
and stare
and wait
for our days to end
our time to fly
to wait

but wait
for virtuous patience
and good dissidence
to rise above the walls
built to keep us from touching
our kin across worlds
and cultures
and experiences
imagine how much we could learn
if we had no
fear built between us
imagine what we could see
could feel
could love
without fear built between us.