We had managed to cheat it
Through affluence and development
Through barricades and gates
And it has evolved, mutated, we say,
To show us where
We were stuck
Where we suck.
Death is a great equalizer.
We are only well,
If we are all well.
We are only content
If we are all content.
We are all ok
Only if we are all ok.
The air we breathe is one.
We cannot just locate it in
Polluted cities
Hot spot zones.
The garbage we create is dumped
In one Earth, all those landfills
And toxicity,
When we send if off-shore,
That’s just a sham.
We are one.
We all need to heal
If we can learn to
Be connected in despair
We can be connected
In repair.
Death is a great equalizer,
It has mutated, evolved, to teach us
That we were always One.
We cannot cut ourselves from
The Other
As we always have.
To our own detriment.
We are one.
The mushroom is the sky
The lion is the elephant
The elephant is the rhododendron,
The rhododendron is the fox
The fox is the fish,
The fish is the snake,
The snake is the human.
That human is you.
That you is me
I am you.
We are one.
Poet’s Bio: Dr. Rachana Patni is a social psychologist and leadership consultant, engaged with her world as a bricoleur, crafting words with love as a narrative therapist and a poet.
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