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Dear distant neighbor: your Asian pain is acutely common to me The oppression bond links us together navel-to-navel Thou art my brother, for God have deemed it so Dear near neighbor: your Caucasian pain is very common to me, The dividing racial line joins us together at the hip Thou art my sister, for God made us have shared crimson joy from the same blood ink dip Overcoming the fear and the distrust; oh, what a wonderful feeling, borne of unconditional bonding love The brotherhood bond of humanity ofttimes does not hold fast The differences that we mostly surface see, hinders us from moving forward Keeps us always slipping backward into the maddening morass of the past The temporary peace that we have, from time to time, doesn’t last long An occasional peace, which come from the things we find common ground to agree on I’ve felt your pain, and you’ve felt mine as well We’ve experienced each other’s heartache, and then some more The lessened burden that we’ve carried in life at times, was made bearable ... because it was shared by another somewhere else — The brotherhood bond holding strong Bravely shouldering the extra hardship of someone not bone of our bone It was our suffering tears they were crying, when we felt comforting relief from the pain It was our withered dreams that were dying, when their flowers received the blossoming rain The wisdom of the brotherhood bond is a bountiful harvest of shared witnessing Wisdom gleaned with heavenly surety ... Showing us that an umbilical equality is rooted in everything
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