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A - TRIBUTE - TO - A - GREAT - MAN . """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Written by Stella C Mitchell December 2013 Any man - born with a skin that bears the seering Of the sun - and yet it does no harm - is of an equal worth - as He who comes in paler tones at time of birth - from out the womb - Made in the image of the living God - as flesh and bone - that Bleeds with deep red blood - when that same flesh Is cut and torn . He feels the tears and anguish just the same - as if one Were mingled with the blood of his own brother - wracked With pain - and yet - in language - colour and tradition - he May be as opposite as one is to the other - but - forgiveness Reconciliation and respect - can bring the two - though worlds Apart - together under the same banner of God's mutual love - as If they shared the nurture of the same Mother - and her blood . How much good has ever been achieved by bloodshed Hatred - selfish desires or angry deed ? that turns a People into worse than any animal could ever be - because Of prejudice or racial hate and cruel greed - None comes to Mind - only a sense of hopelessness - seeped in the destruction's Aftermath - wrought from the carnage of death's fruitless state - And vile seed . But God - in all His mercy draws a man - out of the brokenness of Quarried stone - and frees him from the cell of hatred - once inborn - and Hones and purges him within the cleansing - humbling fires - and draws Him out of life's revengeful dross - to bring him forth - a vessel now - through Whom a nation - though once split in two - and drowning in Apartheid - yet - through Forgiveness - could become at last as new - no longer fueled or bound By prejudice and irreversable Pain - disunity and loss . Nelson Mandela was such a man . """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Thank You Lord , that You chose such a man in Nelson Mandela , who , though no saint , did his best to achieve a lasting legacy by bringing unity between black and white in the great Nation of South Africa . May that legacy live on in his memory for many years to come , and may both black and white hands hold each other up , with humility and peace , each recognising that it is what flows out of the heart of a man , that makes a man , and not the colour of his skin . amen God bless you all Stella >< Vote for this poem
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