“Dignity lives where care is shown freely,
and love needs no explanation.”
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At last we learn,
to recognize, everywhere,
how community
grows from the circle,
shapes us,
and still allows each person
to carry
a quiet, precious thing:
dignity.
Dignity
People recognize one another
by how they are met.
It appears
in respect for limits,
and in leaving room.
Across time and distance,
it stays,
without asking to be named.
Many still carry
the quiet doubt
of not being enough.
When parting comes,
what matters becomes clear —
not what was owned,
not what was held.
It reaches
beyond a single life.
Dignity grows
through what is lived,
through what is carried —
unless it is broken.
Suffering can dim it,
strip it back,
until memory thins.
Love is present.
When it leads,
pain loosens.
Then dignity
is seen again.
