Marking The Boundaries Poem by RIC BASTASA

this is yours and
this is mine
you do not step within
my own line
and circle
i exclude you and you
must exclude me
as we mark the boundaries
of our
lonely territories

what if we change
this law of exclusion into the
nicer code
of inclusions like

this is ours and we
are one
we are brothers and sisters
the earth as our mother
the sky as father
and the rest of the humanity
as stars

the heavens smile
the space bends into a vow
the journey though long
and there is no time
nor light years
to mark our differences

there are no more fragments
of this porcelain jar
there is only a spread of silk
in space
and we are the intricacies
of that beautiful design
embroideries of God
sequins and diamond glitters
of that whole dress
in that party of happiness