The Fence That Separates

Creative Commons ~ Photograph: S A Hooper

The fence that separates us

is nothing more than

a clothes line for your bigotry.

You hang your dirty laundry

on the division you have erected

by your prejudice
 and expect me

to bow in submission.

I stand tall in who I am

and will fight hate with love.

The bitter seed you plant

will not grow its weeds

in my spirit.

Go ahead, keep building

your fences with barbed-wire.

My voice will climb its thorny protrusion.

Love cannot be contained by perimeters of hate.

©Susie Clevenger 2012

 Mary Kling at Real Toads challenged us to use "fences" as the inspiration

for our writings. Check out the fence work at Mary's Mixed Bag ~ Fences