Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2022

All are Welcome

Leaving, staying

Happy, hurting

Online, offline

I still belong


Different, same

Familiar, peculiar

New, old

I am accepted


Speaking, silent

Quiet, loud

Vocal, reserved

I am heard


Conservative, liberal

Ordinary, radical

Outdated, modern

I can be myself


Old, young

Rich, poor

Educated, illiterate

All are welcome

Friday, August 18, 2017

Why Are You Here?

Here we are, gathered with open faces
looking like we care, speaking like we care
but look beyond the façade and we see the motives
Some with passionate commitment are there
because they care about the issue
Some because they want to progress personal agendas 
have come to pretend that they do
They come with their own invites
They come to meet him and her
because when they do, they look like they care
It is so easy to be deceived
Our society isn’t looking at the heart but the acts
so the fakes and phonies continue to play their part
A skill so polished, it’s hard to doubt them
Why are you here?
Are you here because you care
or are you here to act the part?

Thursday, May 25, 2017

We Are Better Together

I need me as much as I need you

I need me as much as I need us

You need you as much as you need me

You need you as much as you need us

I am me, you are you

Together we are better than you or I

Together we make you and I better

Something in me is yearning for you

I am incomplete without you

I need you to be wholly me

I need me to be me

You need you to be you

We need us to truly be

Inspired by Margaret Wheatley’s “The Promise and Paradox of Community” http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/paradox.html, a reading recommended by Royal Roads University’s Organizational Culture Facilitators, Bev McPhee and Randeep Tut.