Together We Are Strong

Together we can find peace…

The travesty of assimilation
is hardly surprising,
considering our greatest fears are derived
from difference and change,
and so humanity marginalizes anyone
who is perceived too contrary to accepted norms,
on either religious, philosophical or cultural grounds,
maintaining the divided between
peace and contention.

Much conflict ensues
before the acceptance of change,
and the melding of culture and beliefs
an almost impossible expectation
in a shared living proximity,
thus the existence of war
the ultimate rejection of acceptance,
and the ultimate expression of rage,
the venting of insecurities based on fear of change.

The revelation is
that after much conflict and even death,
assimilation in a cultural sense can happen,
provided there is reasonable compromise,
and in time we all discover
that humanity is much the same,
with a commonality
of values and family and goals in life,
that make us understand our concerns are only skin deep.

Conflict is the bypass of love,
ignoring common ground for contentious judgement
that leads us to tragedy not happiness,
and in the outpouring, the endlessly spilled blood,
no gain is made,
only the tragedy of ignorance,
the hardening of the heart,
and the acceptance of hatred’s vile darkness,
all that holds us back from a glorious potential.

Tony DeLorger © 2017

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Tony DeLorger

Full time author, freelance writer, poet and blogger since 1999. Twenty one published works, past winner of 'Poet of the Year' on HubPages, 'Poem of the Year' on The Creative Exiles, writer for Allpoetry.com, Google+, tonydwtf.blogspot.com.au
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