Earth from Space

 

When you see Planet Earth from space, it’s beautiful

You just see one big, blue planet

You don’t see any borders or countries

You don’t see any wars or hear any guns

You don’t hear any insane political rhetoric

All you hear, is peace and quiet

All you see is beauty and harmony

Drifting by the planet, slowly

It instills a sense of awe and amazement in you

You start to understand that there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’. There is only a ‘we’.

 

It’s not until you get a little closer that the mirror starts cracking

borders start appearing

Ugly signs of what separates us

rather than unites us

Ugly proof of divisions and what we do

to keep others out rather than welcome them

The blue and the green we saw from out in space

disappears and are replaced with grey, brown and black.

 

Getting up close, the windshield shatters in a million pieces

Your eyes and your heart is pierced with the shrapnel of humanity

streets of violence and countries of war

burning forests and polluted rivers

Poverty, starvation and death becomes evident

The futility of war and the stupidity of humans drives a stake through your heart and you lose faith in humanity

 

When you get all the way into the streets, dodging bullets, drugs, insane politicians and their raging rants enticing ‘their people’ to segregation and death as a martyr,

then you start seeing that there actually still are little pockets in society, little green oasis’s where people are still ruled by common sense and by caring about, and for, each other.

You start wondering, that maybe there is still hope for humanity, for a future where we will focus on what unites us, rather that what separates us. A future where we will start realizing that there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’, and everything we do to others will come back to ourselves.

Maybe, in this eleventh hour, just before the clock strikes midnight, we’ll come to ours senses, and realize…that I am you, and you are me, and that we only got one World and one life to make a difference, and we’re all in this boat, together.

If not… send me back out into space.