Imagine if it cost your whole days
wages, just to feed on bread;
If external forces made you suffer
The indignity of debt.
Imagine if the war torn middle east
Had a minute's silence for fifty dead;
If Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan
Had a minute off for breath
Imagine if a days work came with
a twenty percent chance of death...
Now picture that scene in the Caribbean
Bathing, lounging, plunging, dancing
The preciousness of life it seems
is purely based on address.
A life is a life, do not mourn for the lost,
nor distinguish one over another; instead,
celebrate the time we have around the globe,
not just near but far away from home.