Beyond Windows

(written February 2025)

A troubled soul covers their windows

with sunglasses to hide their pain.

What lies beyond blackout blinds, who can say?

It is easy to make assumptions.

Most of us do that each day.

For the sake of humanity, never seek to

guess the cause of someone’s angst.

Pain takes many forms.

None is lesser or more.

We are all sisters and brothers.

The colour of our skin does not matter.

Behind windows, everyone has a story untold.

Some choose to remain that way to assuage their soul.

Whatever option we take, no one has the

right to question or blame.

Unless they have walked the history of our lives for

at least one day.

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