The Color Gray

The unknowns had all of us in an unknown space.
We are still learning to navigate through the unknown together.

What do we know?
If someone needs us in a place, in the middle of the road, as if the center of the cross...
Streets flood with hearts filled with the love of humanity.

Because maybe he wasn’t just a man. God, in his suffering you were with him? We believe.

God is omnipresent...?
Jesus is the son of God, the living part of God who walks among us...?
Magnify yourself God. Fill us with mercy and love for ourselves and one another.

We, together, live and die within the body of Christ?
We, together, during peaceful protests are a sort of omnipresence?

The death of a beloved human being was brought to our attention...
As well as the momentous followings of that devastating loss.
We don’t know the details surrounding every situation or story that is brought to our attention.

We do know that we’re devastated by injustice.
We do know that all of humanity cares about just one human being.

In the unknown, we might just discover that one human being is all of us?

Love Is

Love is well-set like the scene in your favorite movie.

Well-knit like the tail of a mermaid to wrap around your torso. 

Love is as powerful as the moon. 

Love is as intense as the sunshine. 

The love you pour into your work makes it industrial-strength.

Ironlike in its nature of truth.

Fortified within the walls of it’s castle.

As noticeable as a johnboat in an empty lake. 

Love overcomes the depth of a grave. 

If I have the chance to tell you

About the wonders you’ll see in the world

I could hold you in my arms

Comfort you, hold you

Tell you just like the seasons 

When the storm subsides 

The sunshine will illuminate your soul

Hold on tight 

Love is a fortress. 

Suzanne Sateri

Metamorphosis

The Moon Crown

Every Time

Every time.
She makes it through.

Sometimes I sit back after the storms and think.
Man I shouldn’t have.
What if that was too much for her.

I shouldn’t be so honest.
Maybe it’d make her feel better.

Instead, she loves the truth.
The truth is what makes her feel better.

Once in a while I sense her laughter.
When she’s quietly thinking to herself.

One woman, every woman.
Mother Nature in her peace and in her fury.

There’s no person I’d rather weather the storms of life with.

When the song of the birds emerges in the sunrise she spreads sunlight upon my face.
When the evening moon rises, in my nervous childish laughter before bedtime, her consistent confidence from loving us so comforts me to sleep.

She’s like the lightening that threatens to strike.
She’s like the hurricane in the ring of fire.

She’s like the best, the very best thing that’s ever happened to me.

The gentle feathers that gave me wings.

“What if I fall?”
“Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”

So I gather what’s left of my courage while she teaches my spirit to soar.

Suzanne Sateri

Checks and Balances

Oxford Dictionaries and Thesaurus.com

Quotes from “Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By” By: Janeen Brady

The United States Government 
The Executive Branch
The Judicial Branch
The Legislative Branch
We the People 

The Declaration of Independence

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