Harmonic Accord

poem in rhyming quatrains

 

Harmonic Accord.

 

When ebony and ivory

combine in keyboards they provide

cacophony or harmony.

Its up to you must decide.

 

You find one colour limits you

 in what you can and cannot play

You wisely choose to use the two.

Because there is no other way.

 

To create music old and new

Both black and white each play their part

Why is it that we choose to

see others races as apart.

 

Because they’re not the same as us

We miss the similarities

which makes me rather curious

What is it causes us unease.

 

Intolerance and bigotry

 or merely simple ignorance.

It seems we see selectively

 quite unprepared to take the chance.

 

That they might be like you and me.

Despite the colour of their skin.

If we look closely we can see

 They’re not so different from our kin.

 

Both ebony and ivory

 It seems so obvious to me

 need to contribute equally

 for any kind of harmony.

 

2-Nov-08

 

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[Donald Meikle]

You missed a you (it's a double you) Paul and Michael sang this a while back.