so many great messages and thoughts in this poem Zivah.

"my people are your people

the same in reverse"

"and though mine came first

(if the stories are true)

there is something to be said

for making space for me and you"

You might appreciate this essay I wrote this past July, https://medium.com/@marcus17043/people-are-people-not-us-and-them-ec6d4ddf5b2f, subtitled "Two takeaways from Richard Bach’s wonderful novel 'One' including that it foreshadowed Medium"