A POEM BY R. STEPHEN
Accept those
who don’t accept those
who accept them
Tolerate those
who tolerate intolerance
for the tolerable
Fight for those
who fight those
who have been fought
Give life to those
who give life to the notion
of taking a life
About This Poem
Love Those (Part II): a poem about tolerance
This is a poem about love and tolerance, about fighting fire only with your ears and your calm.
“Where is Part I?” I hear you ask? And its a reasonable question. The first part of this I have included in a manuscript which I’m hoping to be published at some point in the next 40 years.
A challenge for you: comment at the bottom of the page how you think the first ‘Love Those’ poem goes. It’s a single, 9 word, stanza which follows the same pattern as this one. If it’s better than mine, I promise I wont steal it.
RS
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