Tolerance and Acceptance
This may be
your only birth
on this little planet
we call Earth.
Perhaps you
were never born here
in this wondrous World
ever once before
but I have
and will again
even many times more.
Among the stars
I’ve also lived
in other strange forms
knowing Peace and Wars.
You may see
this vast Universe
as far outside of you
but I can clearly see
it is within us too.
You may think
we were born in sin
but I do see
God’s holy Presence
the Life of our life,
as ever and always within.
You can’t prove
and I can’t prove
Beliefs we hold
from things we’re told
or of our own
Remembrances and
Perceptions.
May we leash
our loyal dogmas
and choose a wiser way,
growing day by day
in Tolerance and
Acceptance.
November 30, 2022
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
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