The Same Genes
pulse in our bodies,
we share a lineage,
a web of tectonic
plates and oceanic
currents that channel
how we become aware
together. We navigate
distant ways yet hold
kindred connections,
but we sometimes cling
to opposite perspectives
so lifestyle poles pull
us apart in crevice slides.
Then seismic shifts split
our ways of thinking
into trenches dug to enforce
differences in words
we can’t erase.
All the while,
we pass river banks,
where our common needs
wash in disconnected
yet parallel streams.
Diana Becket
Diana Becket was born in Manchester,
England, and lived in the Netherlands before moving to Ohio. She began to write
poetry when she retired from teaching composition courses at the University of
Cincinnati. Her poems have been published in Common Threads, Pine Mountain Sand
& Gravel, The Cape Rock and Muddy River Poetry Review.
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