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Damn the tears shed for hate's sake each day
          For they threaten to sponge this good world away

We jump to condemn all our fellow's disdain
          Yet OUR acts and words are quite often the same

Human history is rife with our pushing aside
          The folks we find "different" that we should abide

The color of our flesh and the shape of our eyes
          Become standards we typecast and rationalize

Without giving thought to the lies that are spun
          We hurt folks in ways that then can't be undone

Instead of comparing our skin and our face
          We should see everybody as ONE human race

For unless we regard ALL contempt as the same
          Hatred will bloom, with our prejudice to blame

So who do we charge with abolishing hate?
          That soul in the mirror who governs our fate

We can vote to change rulings, legislation and laws
          To quiet those people who make bias their cause

Do our best to identify hate and its guises
          Combat it with love, and make no compromises

Learn to see "difference" as something that's good
          Preach kindness and tolerance, as we all should

And if we transform the contempt in our heart
          At least we can say that we've made ... a good start.




~ 3rd Place ~  in the "My Loudest Feelings" Poetry Contest, Caren Krutsinger, Judge & Sponsor.

* The fight against hatred of any kind is the thing I'm most passionate about, it will always be my loudest voice, and the thing I respond to the quickest. *

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