We Are All Here

by Karen Ehrens

There is no ‘them’...‘us’

Our lives are bound together.

How, then, to get

past OR

to AND

past ‘versus’

to ‘with us’?

Together.

Together.

See the eyes

Offer a hand

Pass the bread

Together.

Together.

Walk a mile

Sing a song

Mumble a prayer

Together.

Together.

KAREN EHRENS is a health and nutrition consultant, anti-hunger advocate, and Registered Dietitian. She carries out her faith through hands - on volunteering in food and policy projects locally and nationally. She and her family live in Bismarck. The floral artwork was drawn by a young girl from Honduras seeking asylum in the U.S. with her mother while finding refuge in a shelter run by a religious organization in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas