similarities

The sign on your lawn reads ‘change’.
Nothing is more invigorating to you
than the ability to hold fast to hope.
Nothing is more powerful to you
than seeing a man stand so tall
against all that his history
reminds him of.
A man able to stare out of your television screen
and ask you to help him
be the first African American president
of the United States of America.

The sign on his lawn reads
nothing of change.
He has lived here for six generations.
Why change now?
He has done alright
to this point.

The groceries in the back of her
Hybrid are pure.
Her paper bag reads
‘no GMOs’.
Her veggie burgers and
organic carrots sit happy,
eager to be cold once again.

Your freezer is full of animals,
kept frozen from last winter,
killed, lovingly
by your own two hands.

Their school is as diverse
as the stripes on the American flag
and at the same time,
as different as the fingerprints
of those who fly it every morning.