What is the difference between a black man and a white man? <br />Is there a difference between a Japanese and a Chinese? <br />A Bosnian and a Serb? <br />How about the difference between a Protestant and a Catholic? <br />A Muslim and a Jew? <br />Or a capitalist and a socialist? <br />What is the difference really? <br />A woman and a man, there must be a difference <br />Mustn’t there be? <br />Oh, what’s the difference what the difference is? ! <br />The difference is <br />A beautiful thing. <br />Thank God for the difference. <br />Imagine a world without difference, <br />How would you feel about that? <br />Indifferent, of course. <br />So why don’t we all just stop our moaning and <br />Complaining and go out there and <br /> <br />Make a difference. <br />It’s a beautiful thing. <br /> <br /> <br />(Previously published by Stroll of Poets Society, July 2000)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/differences-5/
