Fr. Eugene thinks that, management of differences is going to be the major problem of the 21st Century, and so he wrote this poem.
Harmonized Differences
Humans are not the same and cannot be the same
Differences abound in colors, tongue, learning and age
In values we differ and in wishes we continue to differ
Success is not the same thing for every human desire
Some succeed as lawyers, others as Doctors or teachers
Yet success is nothing but success, no more no less
21st century education likes the child who speaks up
Good or bad, being assertive is better than being numb
The internet of things today tries to bind us together
But its time to ask, is the world ready to be together
Our era despises, looks down on tradition as poor
Yes, a thousand children now dare the status quo
The only good thing there, is their life of confidence
Neo-techs are the buzz like the Artificial Intelligence
Innovation is the lingua and the old cargos wonder
Today, what is Art and what is science and technology
Fine Art, Music, Drama and Management are digitized
The world differs in the learning experiences of the child
In innovation, collaboration gets differences harmonized
Then why tarry to find a simple frying machine for garri
Oh, let the new age see the old age with humble looks
There are positive and negative differences, then choose
Love attracts from differences, hate frowns at differences
But you can make a difference from immense differences
The Church, Sports are the differences that tend to bind us
As tech-age drags to connect the vast earth from Cloud
Yes, with our much differences, we can for life dialogue
If we can’t be the other, we can the other complement
Struggling to be the diverse faces of Jesus, the Christ
That’s how to swim across the pool of our differences
By
By Fr. Dr. Alozie Eugene I.
(Eugenic Anthology,2024)