you do not 

look like me

sound like me

talk like me

think like me

act like or

dream like me.

still we are the same.

~~~~

both made in the image

of one greater than

our imaginations could

generate, our differences 

inconsequential, because 

we both come from and 

in our deepest of longings

migrate back towards 

the very same things.

~~~~

and i am the less if i do not 

see you the same way that 

i see me. perfectly

made but imperfectly 

patterned, just like myself. 

pricelessly,

wonderfully,

chaotically,

joyously 

human. 

~~~~

©Heather Pound 2022