XENOPHOBIA
Let us confess, it's never easy
Getting used to strangers.
Novel foods make us feel queasy!
So do unknown dangers.
This is true of every race;
We cling to our own tribe.
Attracted to a well-known face,
And a familiar vibe.
We are 'the others' to the rest,
They view us with alarm!
Those we know best we love the best;
With them we fear no harm.
All this is natural as can be
And we all learn to cope.
Meeting folk from over the sea
Gives us added scope.
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But there are some whose fears are such
They rule their every thought;
Whose sense of anguish hurts so much
They are quite overwrought.
Hatred enters the picture then,
A desire to hurt and maim
Women, children, babies, men
Who are not quite the same.
They have a phobia of course
Their minds are quite unhinged
They long to rid themselves by force
Of those who have impinged.
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Xenophobia is the fear
Of 'the different' and the new.
Enjoy the well-known and the near
But welcome strangers too.
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REBIRTH
(An Acrostic)
Reality? Why, death of course, with nothing at the end.
Everyone desires a way to stop this onward trend.
But hoping to be 'born again' in this world or in that
Is just a childish fantasy and not worth looking at.
Refer to nature.....birds and bees aren't known 'rise again.'!
Then why think things are different in the world of mortal men?
Heaven is a fairyland where our silly hopes have wings.
Let us just get on with life and think of other things!
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