Alike and ever alike

Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies

from generation to generation

keeping the family of Man alive and continuing.

Everywhere the sun, moon and stars, ­­the climates and weathers,

have meanings for people.

Though meanings vary, we are alike in all countries and tribes

in trying to read what sky, land and sea say to us.

Alike and ever alike we are on all continents

in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech,

worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun.

From the tropics to arctics humanity

lives with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.