Doors

Please forgive my extended absence. There have been numerous computer issues and all are not yet resolved. Lea

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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn’t have the power to say YES.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”                                                                              – don Miquel Ruiz

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Doors

everywhere we go

doors are behind us

some loom ahead

as though we must possess

some magical key

to gain entry

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there are doors that

we must labor to gain entry

but our toil will be rewarded

some doors left ajar

anyone can access

you are welcome here

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other doors remain sealed

regardless of our

sacrifice – slammed

in our faces, without a trial

publicly shamed for

our endeavors

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impenetrable is the threshold

of the closed mind

entombed by ignorance, hatred,

control of what

they cannot comprehend

that which frightens – doorkeepers

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doorkeepers who prey

on the doors of those

they chose to marginalize,

disenfranchise, condemn

robbing us of the power

of choice – self determination

… life

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– Léa