One Another

 

When one voice meets another

In a wave of harmony

When a woman heals a stranger

With her careful empathy

When the night falls quiet

To a million skyful stars

I know I am right there where you are

When one mind meets another

In generosity

When one man holds his brother

In his arms of sympathy

When the sun sets the sky

Into flames overhead

That’s when I remember what you said

December’s leafless trees

Reveal the mountain’s shoulders

So can we shed the anger

That keeps up from each other

Time is tugging I can’t fight it

No matter how I try

Til I slow down and discover

With the eyes of a child

All the magic and the wonder

In a million grains of sand

And a whole world

In that child’s out stretched hand

There’s a whole world

In that child’s out stretched hand

--Tom Prasada-Rao & Rachel Bissex

(Written somewhere in the nineties in Austin, TX)