Perhaps there is only "us"

The choice to judge rather than to know

is the cause of the loss of peace.

                                Gifts from a Course in Miracles

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they

them

those people

they are wrong

they are evil

they are sick

they are to be feared

they are to be hated

they are to be changed

and controlled

or not

perhaps

I should listen

perhaps

I should work to understand

what life is like

from behind their eyes

perhaps I would discover

that there is only

us