I AM

I am a vegetarian...
Yet I do not expect you to be a vegetarian.
I am an athiest...
Yet I do not expect you to be an athiest.
I am a pacifist...
Yet I do not expect you to be a pacifist.
I am an anarchist...
Yet I do not expect you to be an anarchist.
I believe that I am right...
Yet I do not believe that you are wrong. I am me...

Yet I do not expect you to be me.
As you do not expect me to be you.
We are what we are...
For good or bad...
We all could be better...
We all could be worse...
But we must face the fact that we ALL are different.
Even when we seem so alike.
So put aside matters of race and creed...
Politics and religion...
Sex and age...
We would ALL benefit by listening and trying to understand one another.
By accepting that we are ALL unique.

There can be and WILL be...
only one you...
only one me...
Together we can be and will be...EVERYTHING
Apart we are NOTHING.
So PLEASE let us stop judging each other.
Let us stop condeming each other.

You say you don't understand...
But have you tried.

I am a poet...
We ALL are...


Mudcrow
December 28 2000



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