Poem: Overview

Overview

A small bubble floats
along, rides through
the empty space.

Not a soap bubble,
but perhaps as delicate
in its own way.

A large bubble, within
which, a cloud of gas,
a bundle of rock,

our planet, small
thing in these terms,
all of us within.

Imagine it, far off, small
enough to watch, from here,
the whole hemisphere.

Think: all you know is
there, inside that oasis:
all of us, together.

It is the one place we know
where we can be, the delicate
miracle that all of us call home.

Watching it from here: not vast
planes, but a tiny tender thing
standing alone against the cosmos,

it is home: all the earth,
your house, all
life, your housemate.

Let us all do the chores
together, cleaning, painting,
making dinner, repairing the toilet.

Let us do it all together, so we
finally may live in a place
all of us are proud to call home.