Humanity

I.
Every war is a civil war –
We are all brothers and sisters.
There is no yours and mine.
The land and sea between us
Is simply land and sea –
Water and dust
to dust.

II.
Every child laughs at the jester –
Whether the court is in Cabrini Green
or the Gold Coast.

III.
Hands feed and hands take away –
Yet they always remain hands.

IV.
Can there be a Sabbatical City –
Where brothers and sisters will not break the bonds of unity?
Where children will care for the generation to come?
Where moth and rust do not destroy?

V.
Tiredness crawls in the hearts and minds of mankind
And night is not enough to rest our weary past.