Differences

Colors of skin,
Cultures apart,
Can make the
Noblest man
Able of sin.

You don’t look like me
I don’t act like you
But we are all
As one;
Even we two.

He does his thing
She does hers
But together
They
Do
Theirs.

Just open
Your eyes
And see
That working
Together makes
You and I
WE.

Helen J. Lake and Bethany S. Lake

1996

Bethany and I wrote this together for one of her assignments. That same school year, I submitted it to my High School Literary Magazine and it was published. For more of Bethany’s Poetry, click ÄHere

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