“Teach your Children Well”… “and you of tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by”

(with thanks to Graham Nash)

Is the Earth round?
Do her oceans’ tides fall and rise?
Does her atmosphere support life?
Why do we doubt what we see?
Do our chests rise and fall with life’s breath, do our gills open and close?
Do we see the stars that died before as light or as pieces of ourselves?
Are the colour variations of plants and flowers so different than the hues of Man?
Was Man designed to be dissimilar; did we grow to match our boundaries and not our expanses?
Is the Zebra shunned for its two-toned stripes by the Lippizaner or Friesian?
Is the mind of Man so different than the other beasts?
If the Lion can lie down with the Lamb why can Man not find similarities amongst his own diversities?


Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 11 November 2014