the love inside us — a poem

Photo by Azamat Zhanisov on Unsplash

behind the walls we erect
behind the masks we wear
behind the pain we bury
behind the religions we worship
behind the color of our skin
behind everything we think matters

when we peel back the layers of
what it means to be human
we will discover
we are beings of
light, love, and beauty

we are all
one