To Accompany You

If I were to accompany you
for a mile on your journey
I would be astonished by your beauty
and enchanted by our common humanity –
your children I would consider as my own
and your parents as due my honour and respect

governments who try to make us be enemies
would be invisible to us and we’d live without them …
looking up at the sky, noting their military might
we’d gather friends, find some musicians
and dance and sing together until the fighter jets

fell out of the sky with nothing left to do.

© Joshua Bond 2016