We

We see, we feel, we talk, we think,

We live through nights and days,

We touch, we move, we breathe, we smell,

We sense both time and space,

The world our home we call, ourselves

We’ve named the human race.

 

We laugh, we cry; we cheer, we grieve,

As joy, we feel dismay,

We try, we fail, we hope, we quit,

We rise, we fall away,

But hand in hand, we’d sail together

Through pleasure and pain.

 

And yet we judge, we jeer, we curse,

We plot, deceive, betray;

We fight our kin, we thirst their woe,

For their despair, we pray;

Deaf to the moans of fellow man,

Blind to all his pain.

 

Human in form and human in flesh,

We grow to meet decay;

Human in name and human in death,

We last to fade away;

Yet human in truth we’ve ceased to be –

Where did we go astray?

 

If we could rethink, reflect,

Undo the flaws we’ve made,

And feel in ourselves what another feels

And share both joy and pain,

Perhaps, then, the world would wake

To a brighter day.