" BEING HUMAN

Though all the force to hold the parts together
And service love reverse, turned negative,
Fountained in self destroying flames
And rained ash in volcanic weather;
We are still here where you left us
With our own kind: unstable strangers
Trembling in the sound waves of meaningless
Eloquence. They say we live.
They say, as they rise on the horizon
And come toward us dividing and dividing,
That we must save; that we must solve; transcend
Cohesive and repelling flesh, protoplasm, particles and survive.
I do not doubt that we will; I do not doubt all things are possible,
Even that wildest hope that we may meet beyond the grave. "

― Ruth Stone , Essential Ruth Stone