Pledge
by Joseph Andriano

(with apologies to Walt Whitman)
 
 

I pledge allegiance to the space-lost globe,
twirling in the dance of worlds.  I pledge
allegiance to those who speak for Earth--
and reach for Mars (not the god).
I pledge allegiance to no lord,
but to the one who spun
the spirals like Sombrero Hat--
the One to whom a nation
is no more crucial than a gnat.                                              photo by David Malin

I pledge allegiance to the flag of my own disposition:
one Earth, cell of deity divisible, a revised edition.
 

Copyright © 2002 by Joseph Andriano