Tribes No More
You thought that you were tribes.
Who taught you that?
You are not.
Then what are you?
You are folk of here.
You are the people of this land.
This land of unspeakable beauty.
Wherever your ancestors left
To come here, and all of us came
Here from somewhere
Other than here,
Wherever you came from
You came to learn love
You came to experience
Separateness and tribes
Temporarily
Now is the moment.
Now is time
To step beyond tribe
Beyond class
And above all beyond
Senseless dying and shouts
That you call threats,
To step beyond separateness
And claim the oneness
To which we all belong
If you sense a force beyond
The world you see
That force is one
That force is love,
That mothers you savagely
And tenderly until you know
We all belong, inside
One great universe
Of love.