The Universal in the New Fade

with so many different ways to tell ourselves apart in the New Fade
it can sometimes be difficult to remember that some things
we all share:

eating
sleeping
drinking
blinking
shitting
peeing
dreaming
hoping
laughing
crying

and these are only some of them
but hopefully you'll agree
that these already form
a solid common ground

so maybe we can stop emphasizing all the differences
and try to focus on the similarities and where
they might intersect

everyone's guilty in the New Fade;
don't think of the road back
as charity so much as compassion

you want to be heard and loved and understood
just like everyone else

even the curmudgeons