TOGETHER

We’re all in this together mate.
We all will suffer the same fate.
Strip all the oceans, fields and streams,
Theirs will not be the only screams.
Clear mountain air that I will breathe
Is still what all the others leave.
For all, our money more or less,
Is only meaningless success.
Religions and philosophies
Will all dry up in the same breeze.
It's senseless wasting our short life
Maintaining walls creating strife.
It’s so much harder to endure
The feelings we are insecure.

We must get off our common ass
Before we let more minutes pass.
Together we must see the 'light'
For separately we'll lose this fight.
A failure individually
Will fail us all collectively.
And at the end we'll not begin
Another fight that we might win.
When this is over, our will done,
God can't return us to the sun.

Comments

[Carolyn Plitz]

This is deep! Somehow, I can't see all of us ever pulling together. We are all too different and diverse in our interests,wants, and needs.Too many of us are self-centred and can never look beyond that. Look at the number of marriage failures. Many people cannot even make that work. Self interest and greed enter in to so many relationship, be they personal or political. If we don't soon recognize that it is in everyone's best interests to co-operate, there indeed will not be the necessity of the sun. What living things will be left to see it rise!

Well done! Very intense. So much is said in so few words. I enjoyed it very much.

[Sunny]

Your poem is very well said... I guess Togetherness is in many levels and in many stages. Your poem seems calling for the togetherness of the mind? because when people all gether as a group, that does not mean they are together.. because mind is acting all by its own.. but when people maybe far distance between... they maybe are very close together because their minds are as one! so like your poem said, we really should be together more than now in the world for all nations, all countries, all people, together to clean, build and love the world! so the sun has meaning to stay in the sky and as well as our human stay on earth.
very enjoy your poem, thank you!

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You are in tune. Doug.E.Barr