Cooperate And Collaborate Poem by John Sensele

Humanity shines through
When our smiles ring true
Despite limitations we face
As we race forth in a warm embrace

To face new reality, to caress a new community
Embracing new humility, stressing new dignity
Sought to save brave humankind
All of us should grow more kind

To see the best in each other
To perceive or receive from a sister or bother
To touch the texture of the hope we eat
To banish bounds, grounds and sounds of ‘I quit'

Or else no future, only the pulse of suture
More fracture in nature, more stricture and rapture
Pushing us to the brink of extinction
Where decisions, incisions and divisions earn us no distinction

Solution sought, dissolution and pollution a waste
No isolation invited, more coalition in a haste
If covid nineteen notoriety in its entirety we address
Without storing or pouring on one another more stress

Than our species need
Self interest feeds and seeds we need to weed
Collaboration and cooperation are key
If humankind binds together to conquer the covid nineteen quay.