Poem October 23, 1978 ISSUE

My people

Becca Beaty

Who are my people?What classifies them as such?Must the pigmentation of their skinmatch my own?Or must they be culturallysimilar to me?Perhaps we must share a nation and a language.Or, in ultimate necessity, we mustemerge from the same bloodlinein rootlike fashion?And are those failingto fit the proper classificationsnot my people?

The Samaritanwho helped the desperate manon the lonely roadobviously disregarded the above-mentioned criteria.The laws of transient physical relationshipswere not laws for him.The light of spiritual lovebroke through the clouds of mortal misconceptionsand brotherhood was shownwhere priest and Levite saw none.

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