Earth for You

I hope it is
A good day for you and
Better

From a corner
Of the upper hemisphere
And
To the left
Please
I greet you

Nearby those who are
Neighbors
In geography
While far away
Peers
In another way

It’s nice
To have the world as one
If only we believed the
One shape from the station
Beheld
With
So many parts
Of wonder

Bound by round
And also sinuous
Sometimes jagged
Lines

But without borders
Of our own
None of the barriers we make
Shone through
So that
From space
They’re only in our mind
And the way
We make agenda

Peace on Earth
Seasonless the fact
While Earth
Keeps it blue-green
With red only in spots
Where we could
Rush repair
Or having kept away
In
The first place

The open spaces
Underneath cloud movements
Or
Left-open deserts
Without cover

The openness
So much an invitation
Though the shifts in clouds
Write one
As well

Come down
And if you’re here already
Make a world
So that everyone
James-Weldon-Johnson-like
Might say
After all the work
“That’s good!”

Before
All of us might have
The party
Of the planet

C L Couch


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