Harmonies rising, faces aglow
Mother, father, daughter
Spanning human creation
Daughter fulcrum of their song
Within, low lighting
Illumines and shadows.
If you saw them apart
One, you would not imagine them.
Yet they are.
And such things can be.
Beyond, outside their sacred space,
all is amiss
And hate and anger reign,
And our differences we can’t forget.
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by Ri_Ya
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