Pride is never comfortable
celebrating who i am
   or what
things i like to do
but i have always
understood the reason
for all the multitudes
   to be accepted
by accepting humanity
in its peaceful states

perhaps i might be better
suited to Pride in myself
if i could be something
   i could
put my finger on or another
as i wander around amazed
by each particular diversity
   so often hidden in
   plain sight

honestly it's enough
when you really look
not for Pride from me
but the growing hearts
from others reaching
out and into us all

is it time to look
once again to others
to define what happens
in the world we share
   as they do
even without my attention

not as a powerless result
but an empowered disregard
as luck and skill has it
built for a unique survival

it wouldn't be the first
decision to reconvene
accepting the consequences
on all sides of the games

but to what end, there
   never are —
except the forever plight
of Order and Disorder a'war
   in their own
disregard for the living
   stillness
in the inside in-between