If you told me you were vegetarian
or Republican,
I wouldn't try to convert you
to bar-b-que or single-payer health care
If you told me you were Marxist
or Methodist
or Buddhist,
I wouldn't try to convert you to my
episco-feminist-yankee-crunchy-postmodern-
Jesus-loving-ways
If we shared a pot of coffee
and a conversation, maybe,
we'd speak of books and passion
and trade songs of growing up
but I still wouldn't try to convert you.
It's not like that with you and me
When I said that we don't spank
and you countered, "The Bible says..."
did you think I hadn't read it?
(You never stopped to ask me why)
There was a definite conversion:
your words transmuted us
to you
and me.
Jesus-loving-ways
If we shared a pot of coffee
and a conversation, maybe,
we'd speak of books and passion
and trade songs of growing up
but I still wouldn't try to convert you.
It's not like that with you and me
When I said that we don't spank
and you countered, "The Bible says..."
did you think I hadn't read it?
(You never stopped to ask me why)
There was a definite conversion:
your words transmuted us
to you
and me.
