Ode to Unity

I

Sing a song of human fate.

What fate did we create?

Where profit eternally reigns 

Keeping people in perpetual chains.

Where cruelly the earth we displaced,

Chasing life herself into waste. 

Earth’s maternal caress disdained. 

The seas and valleys stained 

Sing a song of human distress; 

False tale of eternal progress. 

Thick gruel of a future cruel. 

Severed from earth we think we are 

But truth from that is far.

This destiny we have created 

Condemns us all belated or related. 

To this present state; 

An antidote elates;

Unity, resonates:

Sisyphus, a stone he rolled, 

Till his bones turned old and cold, 

Cursed the moon and accompanying night

For alone he was in plight

While the stars bathed in light. 

His task of unimaginable might

Was a torture to him alone.

Yet if unity aided to roll the stone

The task would not be labour

But testament to the neighbor.

The cure is not obscure;

It is human duty

 To preserve this beauty. 

This beauty of sunsets fierce,

Of peaks that heavens pierce.

Beauty of deserts vast, 

Of  Oceans made of glass.

Beauty of forests serene;

Of Palisades lean and green.

 This earth of blue veneer

Is our covenant to revere.

II 

The dawn breathes.

The dew sleeps under the leaves. 

And in the morning still 

A bell rings, in the morning chill. 

What spell, in which hope dwells?

It is the glory of bells.  

Over fields and peaks risen, 

Ring bells of tisane.

Ring for unity; 

Paean to community. 

Ring bells pleaded, 

Ring for change needed;

Heeded to create our Eden.  

In every glade and every grove 

Is the singing of the dove.

In the shadow and the ray 

Is the gate to the new way. 

Join voices to the clover; 

Join  your neighbor over 

For alone, this task dismays,

But together, solution lays. 

Sing a song of fate 

See the solution we create

As we join united again. 

Gaze  into a neighbor’s vein; 

See that we are the same. 

See that we are enate. 

Together we will create, 

Change, no longer sedate. 

Prometheus in ancient past

Descended from a heaven vast.

To Man a fiery staff he gave,

Freeing him from the cave.

This flame opened eyes

To the dawn of human skies.

The Fire  saw elemental rite.

The Fire saw human delight 

Seeing the meals cooked right.

The Fire saw the arrows’  flight.

The siege of Carthage and of Troy.

 Seeing truth and decoy.

  Weapon and candlelight.

Fire saw Shakespeare write,

Achilles fight, Cicero recite.

This same Fire will see us unite. 

As this twilight pales all

 We hoist the sails tall. 

Ring bells of unity 

Ring for community. 

Resonate song of fates 

In unity our Eden awaits.