Connections di Dudley Weeks

"We are connected
one to the other
by needs and hopes
that transcend infant groupings
so recently spawned
by divisive minds
in this human cradle
from which we’ve still not
emerged with gentle strength,
so we reach for dominance
and reach for advantage
to feel we deserve
a higher place
than someone else,
but we are connected
one to the other
with more in common
than we want to see,
for I need you
and you need me
connected as we are
in this cradle bed,
the same umbilical feeds us all,
when you draw breath
my lungs expand,
when I fall down
your body aches...
We are connected
the one to the whole,
woven as art in search of a frame
yet we seem to dwell
on the torn interruptions
ignoring the truth
that we are
connected."