Maya Angelous...

Today's post will be the words and perspective of Maya Angelous.  I haven't sailed the seven seas, but her words resonate with my heart, and so I want to share them with you.

I note the obvious differences

in the human family.

Some of us are serious,

some thrive on comedy.

Some declare their lives are lived

as true profundity,

and others claim they really live

the real reality.

The variety of our skin tones

can confuse, bemuse, delight,

brown and pink and beige and purple,

tan and blue and white.

I've sailed the seven seas

and stopped in every land,

I've seen the wonders of the world

not yet one common man.

I know ten thousand women

called Jane and Mary Jane,

but I've not seen any two

who really were the same.

Mirror twins are different

although their features jibe,

and lovers think quite different thoughts

while lying side by side.

We love and lose in China,

we weep on England's moors

and laugh and moan in Guinea,

and thrive on Spanish shores/

We seek success in Finland,

are born and die in Maine.

In minor ways we differ,

in major we're the same.

Have a marvelous week-end my friends!