You Want To View A World United Poem by Suki Nakamura

hey, did i hear you right?
that you want a world united?

it will never be.
men and things and states will never be
one in unity

I tell you, all you need to do
Is look at the five fingers attached to your hand.
Their lengths are not the same.
The lines of your palms scatter like some pins
Around the body of an urchin
Like some protective skin of the
isolating porcupine

Hey, did i hear you right?
you want these poets to agree upon themselves

their poems like common blue seas spreading
happily throughout all the continents?

that will never be.
look at the seas they keep on moving
without a common direction

do you feel these continents moving?
like glaciers always on the shape revising
falling and rising and moving and never stopping

you must learn the truth of our beings.
it is change, it is flux, it is the randomness of the atoms
it is growth and death, the wantonness of chaos,
it is the way the clouds take the shapes they want
the winds keep on blowing

the beauty of disorder, the sneezing and snoozing
these make you feel good, these make us truly
what we really are

do not put the sands united in the common grip of your palm
you know what happens, they always slip away