New Use For Brown Paper-bags

by

h. lena jones

Children playing together

Can be so refreshing

They care not if their mate

Is pink or green or red

Or even covered in

Blue and yellow polka dots

What matters more than anything

Is that they’re having fun!

I would take a gamble

That if grown-ups

Were placed in a room together

With brown paper-bags over their head

And told to get to know each other

Asking no questions about

Nationality, Politics or religion

They would chat away with freedom

And find that they have much in common

And end up forming friendships!

Our world is so full of hate

You just have to watch the news

Friendships are destroyed before ever made

People have so much to share, so much to learn

But because of senseless pride and prejudice

And hunger to take control, end up fighting and killing

It would seem the only solution to this dilemma

Is the wearing of brown paper-bags

Then people will better respond

To God’s commandment

“Love your neighbor as yourself…”

We writers at the Den

Are fine examples

For the world to see

That people can indeed

Love, respect, and appreciate each other

In spite of differences!