One Another
One Another
Sometimes I feel I must be living someone else’s life, because I have these stories that come to my head, and they have no relevance to what is directly happening in my life. This is how many of my poems are created, and the resolution, or partial resolution of the situations involved in these “lives” is explained in a poem.
For the poem, “One Another,” two people meet after what seems a lifetime since their last meeting in their youth. Then a boy, a man recalls when an a political election, he is attracted to a girl, who belongs to the opposite political party he was raised to respect.
In fairness, both attended rallies for each other’s presidential candidate after they started dating. Like the Capulets and Montatgues, this modern Romeo and Juliet lived in different worlds and parts of town. The relationship is not encouraged by either of their families, and after graduation from high school, the couple split up. he goes into the military and then vocational school to learn a trade to make a living. She goes on to college, majors in business, and becomes part of her father’s business whichc is eventually sold for high profit. Her parents retire, and the woman begins her own business with the financial and emotional support of her parents. She becomes a great success, and another election rolls around.
By coincidence, the man’s services are needed in the expansion of the woman’s business, and they are together again for a mutual business meeting. They remember the politics of the candidates they supported and how not much has changed.
They get around to the current business at hand and leave knowing they could never have been romantically together. She married, had several children and got divorced. One of her sons died in a foreign war. He married another woman who gave him three sons before she died in an auto accident. He has not recovered from the loss.
Even though never married, these two people have much in common, and depend on one another.
One Another
Somewhere, somehow, altogether
We are related to each other,
Friend or lover, sister or brother,
And must get along with one another.
We should also love our mothers,
For we would not exist without them.
One earth, one life, are all part of God’s
One plan for salvation through Christ.
In spirit we have but one Father, who
Created this world and the universe.
His praises are in songs and verse,
Fighting the doom of evil’s curse.
War’s spoils feed the devil’s purse
And hate only makes matter worse.
Somewhere, somehow, altogether
We are related to each other,
Friend or lover, sister or brother,
And must get along with one another.