Just like our parents before us

Their parents as well, and so on

We too have the same dreams

Aspirations, trials and tribulations and fears

Doubts about the future for us

And worry about our children's fate.

I always wondered, why it happens

When we all grew up on the same diet

Of sitcoms, fast food, bad jokes, an occasional riot.

Even if we practiced the same religion

Voted, participated in the existing political system,

Performed our jobs in a similar workplace

Spent our hard earned monies in the same marketplace

Why are then our differences: can only be measured

In tons and miles rather than grams and inches

Or using such words is immeasurable or overwhelmingly great?

Eugene Laszlo Hegedus