Pursuit for Equality in a Democracy

Love takes on so many different forms.   Love generates many different feelings.    Love can make you feel like you’re walking in the clouds.   Love can cause great pain.      The love between a parent and their children & grandchildren.    Is a bond that will never be broken.    From the second they are born to beyond the second you pass.   Your heart has forever been transformed.      Love given to friends and former lovers.   Can fulfill us here and there.    However, it won’t last our whole lives.    There’s always a piece of you “missing”.      That missing piece is what most people spend their lives searching for.   And very few find.    It is their true love.    The one who loves you unconditionally.    Despite your faults and silly quirks.      . True love makes you feel.    Like a waterfall of delight ...

Where is heaven? Some people think it is between the sky and stars.   Others haven’t a clue.    Isn’t heaven all around us?     The feeling of a first kiss.   Moonlight walks.    Holding hands on the beach.   A bite of your grandmother’s matza brie.    Or eating your favorite treat.      Heaven is your departed father’s advice.   Coming to you in a dream.    Heaven is gazing at the winter moon.   Where your son remarks   “I hope Poppy Bernie and Grandma Yvette are okay.”      Heaven is all around us.   Up in the sky.   Here on the ground.    In our hearts and a summer breeze.     Heaven is embedded in our souls.    To carry the memories.    Of family, friends, and loved ones.   Who touched our lives.    And made an impression.     Taught us valuable lessons.   So, we can pass those stories on.  ...

Every past love that is lost. Through arguments and tears.    Leads to dreams and promises.   That are now gone with the howl of the wind.   And replaced with bricks built around our hearts.      Years go by and the calendar rapidly turns.    Those bricks now have built a wall.    Which keeps out the hurt and the pain.    Where loneliness gets mistaken for protection.      Thinking that all hope of happiness is lost.   A new love comes along.    Where each kiss takes a brick down.    Holding hands during a sunset stroll   Takes a brick down.    Laying in each other’s arms.   As the nightly waves crash on the shore.   Takes a brick down.      Once the bricks are down.   A light comes shining through.   Which warms your whole body.   Starting with your heart.    Your mind is open to new possibilities.   To a happines...