The Greater Humanity
We know who we are by the silence around us
We know who we aspire to become by the pulse within us
We know the sound of footsteps by the memory of those who came before
Listening immerses us in the universal mass
Keeping quiet allows us to hear everyone else
Remaining still informs us that we are not alone, thank God, we are not alone
Common choir makes all languages one word
Dance corpus combines all movement into a single motion
Every tongue longs to taste a sip of water gathered from the ancestral spring
Closed eyes reveal stock dreams of flight and sanctuary
Thoughts of love blend every sense into a solitary embrace
Holding hands reminds us that we are not alone, thank God, we are not alone
We remember who we are by the footprints of the billions and billions
The ones who hunkered in the trees, the ones who crouched in the caves
The ones who paddled across the seas, the ones who climbed the peaks
The ones who trudged across the deserts, the ones who tramped the jungles
All of them with the single wish to give all children the future we cannot see
Bowing our heads teaches us that we are not alone, thank God, we are not alone
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Drawing of Vitruvian Man courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci, around 1490