EDGE OF THE COIN By ... Steve Lucky

             EDGE OF THE COIN
            By ... Steve Lucky

People have a tendency to divide other people
Into various categories and subcategories
Based on all kind of things.
Male and female, black and white, child and adult, rich and poor
All need to be able to see life from the edge of the coin.
Not all things can be neatly placed
Into one category or the other.
Hermathrodites, children of mixed race, teenagers, and the middle class
Remind people that even the best classifications of people
Have a tendency to break down
When seen from the edge of the coin.

One needs to take a look at who people are instead of what they are.
Individuals, not categories, is what makes up the human race.
How can anyone even pretend to judge
By standards they do not live up to themselves?
Whatever else we are, we are all filled with human frailties.
To improve life for the individual and for the world,
Everyone and every view point
Needs to be taken into consideration.
This includes the unpopular ways of doing things.
Sometime those ways actually turn out to be right.

As a whole, the coin is valuable.
Heads and tails come together
In a way too complex for even the smartest person to comprehend.
Could the coin exist without heads, without tails,
Or without an edge to hold them together?
Looking carefully to see whether a coin has landed heads or tails
Might make one forget the coin also has an edge.
From that vantage point, heads and tails are alike yet different.
Male or female, black or white, rich or poor, child or adult
Everyone has a human edge.

Lord, help all people, great and small
To see things from the edge of the coin.
Judgement comes from what is done to the soul
Not from the exterior factors surrounding it.
Fighting is done far too often
And done for the most trivial of reasons.
Help all to remember,
Whether one is classfied heads, tails, or even an edge.
It takes all of us to make the coin a vaulable whole.

Copyright 2007, Steve Lucky