Choirs

Let’s not rely on teams and committees,

congresses and senates, parliaments, houses, and courts.

Instead, let’s form choirs for all ages,

and from all ethnic backgrounds, and all walks of life.

Let’s have a widespread wealth of daily public performances,

and broadcast these instead of speeches and news.

Let’s remind one another that we’re made

not for strife, but for song — indeed,

that this grand manifestation

we call the universe,

lives and breathes

on a rhythmic,

musical principle.

Let’s clap our hands,

sing out, and be stirred.

Let’s make heaven — on earth.

[ 2068 ]

William Michaelian