no room for pretense,

racism ruins nations

at the children's expense.

Fallujah is crying,

Somalia too--

It doesn't take genius

to know just what to do.

Embrace the peace-message

of Jesus-the-Christ,

When we nuture the inner child,

Earth holds no vice.

© 2004 by cynth'ya lewis reed

Poet's Note: I was asked to write the forward to the book "All Folks Were Created Equal, Views from the Back of the Bus." ISBN: 0-595-23458-4, Writer's Club Press, an imprint of iUniverse Inc.

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