Posted by SDW on June 28, 1999 at 16:00:54:
I walk with strangers I thought I knew.
Supposedly we are alike in many ways,
Believe much the same.
But I look closer at the palms and olive branches they carry before them and
their shiny smiles.
The branches seem to be plastic. Others are dusty and decaying.
Their eyes lose their sincerity, and their smiles lose the power to penetrate souls.
Repulsing one of their own, I can see how "outsiders" may want to avoid our message, our lifestyle.
Nothing gets accomplished of the dreams to win mankind.
Hypocrisy and cliqueishness turn the needy away--hungry souls which are filled now with dark instead of light.
Another soul lost through our arrogance and pride.