Bound

We are all bound to one another.
Whether family by blood
or through happenstance and bonding
or circumstance and passion.
The acceptance of one another
should be simple.
Instead,
we have muddied the waters;
blurred inclusion and acceptance;
laid expectations and stipulations.
Can we not just be?
Can we not just be together?
Bound (this bound) does not mean tied up.
It means tethered to -
regardless of a great many differences.
We are one.
We are bound.