Tolerance

A person worth loving is someone who needs
someone who cries, someone who bleeds.
Someone who struggles with trials and strife,
someone who's trying to make it through life.

Someone worth loving may not do great things
may not wear nice clothes or fancy rings
may have been passed over by everyone
may be grieving still over things they've done.

Someone worth loving is hopeless, yet hoping
reaching to find another hand groping
searching for love in dry sandy places
turning again to familiar faces.

There is more than one side to living.
One side must accept what the other is giving
In the end there's no righteous offense
and no teacher like experience.

Walk a mile in the shoes wherein others have trod
and realize that we are all children of God
and we can have tolerance as sisters and brothers
and learn to accept and love one another.