Lines Drawn – Author Stephanie Francis

By Raja's Insight on April 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

There’s an invisible line set between us.

Separating the various parts of us.

Parts that are tossed about

whenever a disagreement comes about.

What is this line really stating and projecting?

We both have our alliance and choose not to change

what status quo wants us to believe.

There is a line between us and in reality we are free to be.

Free to want and desire what is rightfully ours.

Why not give in to that freedom of expression?

We were intended to blend and just be.

Coexisting together in this life.

Excerpt form the book “Divided Lines – A Poet’s Stance”

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Foreword . . .

In a world of ever increasing advances seemingly created to make our lives easier to manage, envisioned to bring us together, to draw us closer, we are still in many instances isolated and at odds and validly apart. Something is missing, there is a snag, a rip, a hole in the spiritual fabric that we all see; yet we continue to fail to address.

It has been said by self-proclaimed philosophers, theologians, scholars’ and politicians that the abuse of words can be a danger, there are those that believe words are a leading factor in what ills our society. Of this we do not deny in full, there have been abuses, history is but a melody to that fact, yet it is also true that words have the innate capacity to bridge, to heal that which divides.

Opinions, views, religions, nations, people, even love divides. The focus of this book and the poets here in, is to give breath to a wide range of issues both small and controversial that lie beneath the surface. Things that we are often hesitant to discuss. In saying that, I will offer that the role of a poet is not to persuade or to add more rhetoric to the static we hear. A poet’s responsibility is to shine the light of awareness, to create a platform for dialogue, for healing, to gather up the images in an attempt to understand what we see.

Demitri Tyler, Author

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