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Xenophobia (a poem)

from Force Field for Good by Barry Lane

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Xenophobia

If you had xenophilia
and I had xenophobia
and we were from two cultures
far apart as night and day
then I would want to run from you
and you would want to run to me
and I would cry to look at you
and you would want to play.

Everything would frighten me.
Your different skin.
Your different prayer.
You would find me beautiful.
You’d reach your hand.
You’d try to share.

And I would hide inside my fears.
And I would tremble in my tears.
Such loneliness might last for years.

But you would still be there.

And one day I would look at you.
Your different prayer.
Your different skin.
I’d see your hand extended
and I’d know that we were kin.

I’d know you waited for me
with a love I did not earn.
It might take me a while
but eventually
I’d learn.

© Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

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from Force Field for Good, released March 15, 2014

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day.
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