Humanity by Mike Williams 05/03/2016 @ 9:17 A.M.

I see our shared humanity, 
Between all the opposing odds. 
We speak a different language, 
With different cultures and gods. 

What is lost in the translation, 
Are the details I can't relate. 
But if any should suffer them, 
We'd have only a heart of hate. 

Yet I see your inner beauty, 
How very much you are like me. 
It isn't the odds that hold truth, 
It's in our similarity. 

I see within your eyes shining, 
And hear a smile within a word. 
But through it all I'm pining, 
To know what is often unheard. 

Upon the earth we are strangers, 
Both of us from a distant land. 
I sense familiarity, 
For all that I don't understand. 

To strip away our differences, 
And peer beyond complexity. 
We share our experiences, 
Of our common humanity.