We Are All But One

we are all but one varied colours and hues countless creeds trudging down alone the world's avenues yet the strands that bind us together as one reach far too deep within our collective soul as we amble on underneath our soiltary sun we are all but one one body of humankind with a shared yearning for love and peace shelter and companionship food clothing and above all hope that ever burning furnace that rages inside each woman and man hope that somehow, some way, someday, something will for the better emerge and we may then cease to sing our mournful dirge for hope shall triumph now or in some distant tomorrow and hope shall be victorious over the dread and gloom and hate and pain and days of achingly deep sorrow so we can rise up and lift our heads and stare into the blooming of a new dawn a dawn of victorious hope and of peace and of light dispelling the darkness of ignorance ushering us all into the fields of the future to behold the glorious and the truth of real freedom's awe-inspiring sight