A dolphin swimming along side
turning to look at us curiously
as we are looking back, within each
other’s world and beyond each
other’s world.

Understanding intelligence as
we witness it, in the way we look
at one another, the way we consider
the other’s world and yet we fail
understanding one another’s world.

And so we look at each other
across a great divide we’ve built
across our world, a wall of
indifference built by ignorance,
fear and for the benefit of those
who benefit in the divide.

We lack the simple curiosity
to wonder what it must be like
to live in a world more evenly
shared in love and respect
of each other’s needs and
for the benefit of all.