Acceptance of Diversity Leads to Unity

UNITY IS PEACE

The United Nations cited 400 years
before we reach equality,
Yet I ask what is equality?
Is it to be equal?
Yet no-one is equal,
For diversity is the greatest consistency,
Between and within the sexes,
For uniqueness
Originates within the self.

So what is the problem?
Are we speaking of a general stereotype?
An issue of power over?
Gender specific roles?
Feminine and masculine?
Caregivers or providers?
Do we fall into lines of them and us?
Or are we same same yet different!

There is no difference my friends,
When we are humans being,
Only in imagined beliefs do tensions arise,
For social engineering is subtle,
And the child is receptive to the cues,
For they are taught,
Gender is learned,
And patriarchy is a power construct,
For when you see yourself in the other,
That is the hour of true unity.

But what of toys,
What of rough behaviour,
What of cooperation,
For clearly we see behaviours,
These are the expectations of the parents,
For society has colour codes,
We communicate in gender,
For girls are soft sweet indecisive talkative,
Boys are rough boisterous strong silent,
One must be cared for,
The other must be freed to sow his seeds,
For he is dynamic and leading the way,
When in truth each has masculine and feminine qualities,
It is a question of identity and choice.

Is a child raised by wolves
human?
How does this child live in the snow for years
running on all fours with the pack
not get hyperthermia?
Yet when approached by humans growls and snaps,
When taken by humans the child’s life elapsed,
For there was no relationship …in mind.

99.6% of genetics is shared with chimpanzees our ancestral cousins,
Similar behaviours yet different,
100% of genetics is shared between the sexes,
For we are the same species,
We are capable of learning,
Of loving,
Of remembering,
Of killing,
Each is capable of behaving like the other,
And in many moments we do.

So what of sexuality?
The point of attraction,
This allows intimacy,
It is an expression of love when real,
In-to-me-see opens the window to the soul,
Love melts walls of imagined fear,
For the beauty of the rose opens naturally,
And the fragrance of love surrenders to unity,
For the differences were genetically engineered for attraction
not of opposites but complements,
Inspiring curiosity,
Gaining insights,
Facilitating personal growth,
For in your eyes I see me,
In my eyes I see you,
For the veil of separation was simply stage setting,
On a rainbow horizon of promise,
That lives the happy ending
as a new beginning.

May your friendships be based on truth,
May your love be based on intimacy,
May your family be extended to the world,
May gender become invisible
as we live and laugh together,
For friendship steps beyond attractions
and seeks to learn from diversity,
For there is no tolerance only acceptance,
And this is the dialogue that builds bridges,
Enhances understanding,
Promotes respect,
For it is not a question of faith or belief,
It is to be unity then live it,
And this is the highest universal value
expressing the wisdom,
‘Same same but different’.

For peace lives not in silence,
But acts on what is known,
For it is the truth that sets you free
to communicate to all in a common unity,
And this is the true meaning of community,
That finds peace is unity.