On the day that April Ashley

became a citizen of honour

in her home town that was once rugged,

rough, the tumbled down

and decaying, you cannot but help raise a smile

and nod to the fact that acceptance is the most

powerful form of understanding, a lesson that rarely

gets learned and that we are all guilty

of displaying the disgraceful

ridicule to those whose hearts beat

in time with ours.

 

I saw her being interviewed once

by one of the greats of the new build city