Humanity's Foundation

by Thomas Redoubt

Image credit: Marco Chilese on Unsplash

I was born human.

I draw breath and expel it.

I pulse blood throughout my body.

On this foundation stands

            my dignity and yours.

Respect mine as

            I respect yours.

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Thomas Redoubt

Thomas Redoubt is from Freedom, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Ohio River north-west of Pittsburgh and now lives in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. He was trained in science and law spent the first half of his non-literary career as a materials science researcher and the second half as a lawyer and law school adjunct professor. Redoubt has a passion for writing poetry and sees poetry as the epitome of one person to communicate his/her thoughts and feelings to another.