Diversity Means:

A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.

That’s what Webster says

But he is wrong

For the part of the song that is diversity is not dissonance

But harmony

When two different voices weave gracefully

A vibrant tapestry of separate ideas

Different places and keys

To doors that only a single one is incapable of opening

Diversity is when we

Are one

You and me

Yes, just the two of us

Not every hand of every race

Holding each other on a mural’s face

For I know that diversity is more than that

Diversity doesn’t have to mean the entire world

There is diversity in our own homes

In our own hearts

In my heart

Every time you walk my way

The diversity means the stew of emotions frolicking within my deepest chambers

Nervousness and then comfort

Begging for me to mold myself within your arms

Or run away

The phenomenon that I cannot classify as natural or not

When one human can get so many thoughts

But can derive nothing to say

That is diversity

Diversity is defined

By the time we first danced

The rigid ice of my movements

Cradled by the flimsy uneasiness of yours

How both fluidity and order lurked in the awkward teenage affair air

Diversity means the moment when I thought I knew what it all means

Yet I still felt lost

To me it is defined

Not by rigid lines

Just when two things, two feelings, two people

(If you can even call us people when we are together,

for I feel we are just spirits

dispensing in the moments or surrendering ourselves to these emotions we cannot control)

That are separate become one

When differences become cohesive and create one being

One memory

One beautiful thing

That is speckled with the ingredients that make us each separate

And make us

Breathtaking

Amazing

Rippling

And blazing

A fire that we want

That we need

To burn up each of our homes

Diversity is when I look at your aphotic complexion

And then you brush against my cheek

And joke about how I make the snowflakes freefalling on us

Look like they dived off a tanning booth

I’ve always said that I wanted to yield children of my same blood

And diversity means that nothing could be more delicate and ethereal than our two identities

So separate

Merging as one

Diversity means that in one relationship

We can laugh over how the repulsiveness of school lunches has increased exponentially

And then talk about the paths we are taking and paving

In one conversation

Diversity does not mean

Just variety

Diversity does not mean

Two colors

Or thoughts

Or dreams

Or directions

Or schemes

Diversity is when those thoughts are joined

When those dreams become a single blooming vision

The two directions merge into one road

When multiple schemes are overarched as a magnificent theme

Yet each individual retains its own identity

When we can still look at the beauty of the different components

And admire all they have to offer

Diversity means that the fusion

Is turbulent

Permanent

Opulent

And is meant

To be

Contingent

Sufficient

A mission

That we must all grab with soft yet firm fists

Diversity means this world

Diversity means us

And if we mean something

Then we are meant to be.