Not a Single Line of Demarcation
Last night I dreamed of floating
in space, high above our planet,
Earth. From this vantage point
true, there is not a single line
of demarcation.
Here, there are no boundaries,
no countries, no nation states,
no geopolitical grievances
to settle. There is only
this striking evidence
that we are not meant to
go it alone. To the contrary,
it is clear that if we look beneath
our genus Homo Sapiens skinsuit,
deep down into a molecular world,
we find our very chains of DNA
to be as if we are the same one,
no different from another, other
than eye, hair, and skin color.
In my dream last night, I floated
high above Earth, and witnessed
not a single line of demarcation
shown around our gleaming planetary
home.
©Paul Goldman August 8, 2022
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