"Take me as I am
hold me by the arm."
Are lines of a song
in our childhood together we sung.

Cluster of kids we were
under the tree, we fare.
Danced through the night,
fun at our every gathering day or night.
We played our grudges away
we forgave each other everyday
and never played back the past.

Now what are we
what pain we inflict, that won't heal.
Where did we bury our acceptance
of our differences, our tolerance
of each other, we had in abundance.

We live now, a short fuse
ready to spark instead of to fuse,
in Love, in...