MYSTERIOUS MAN
I am African, I am Asian,
I am Caucasian, Hindu, Turk,
I am Muslim, Christian, Jew
—I am so very much like you.
I am love and I’m compassion
I am hate, I’m destruction,
I am jealousy, I am rage,
I am in life’s middle stage,
—I am so very much like you.
I am French and I am Yankee,
I am rebel and I’m a friend,
I am Algerian, I am Cockney,
I am Canuck and I am Orkney,
—I am so very much like you.
Today is not our yesterday,
Our yesterday’s thinking
is now so very passé,
Yet our todays and yesterdays
Seem to be so much the same,
Yours and ours. What a game.
We must get to know each other better,
Day by progressive day,
–For we are so very much alike.
Take the mystery out, talk face to face,
Shake each other’s hand,
Wouldn’t it be grand?
Forgive each other, start anew.
What a view.
–I am person; so are you.
I have compassion; so have you.
I love my family and you love yours.
I love travel, you take tours.
My heart bleeds for lives wrong taken,
You weep for your people all forsaken.
We can agree, the brotherhood cliche is true.
–Together now, “I’m so very much like you.”
—H. W. Bryce
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Deborah L. Kelly, Angel Edwards and 46 others
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