There is a time when we should be silent
Because it is no longe about discourse;
Instead how certain issues make us vent,
And we hope to be the challenging force.
But that does not mean that all will agree,
And might see things in a different way.
They know that they should let the matter be,
And not to add with their discordant bray.
Yet you continue to blow your trumpet
Because you want to be the one who’s right,
But the thing about this you do not get
By blowing, you’ve already lost the fight.
The true purpose of having a debate
Is to find compromise to make us great.
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The Great Debate
In the spirit of our competition,
I will cross the stage so I can shake your hand.
The audience has some expectation
That our exhibition will be so grand.
To see who goes first, we will flip a coin;
The other will pick the side they will take.
Ideas we’ll explore; clashes we’ll join
Will bring us to an agreement we’ll make.
Though it may seem like we are in a fight,
There is a greater purpose happening.
We will find a compromise that is right
That comes about from all this explaining.
The purpose for us to participate,
To learn what is right from our great debate.
John Collings 