China

Intuitive observers of One-ness

Parents of music, language and arts

Ancient cultivators of

enlightenment

Forgive us our tears

our ignorance

our confusion

Forgive us our anger

our impatience

our protest

We are of a different era…

We, who dare to preach

the slick of our rainbows

still floating in tidal pools

Your descendants

Your issue

Your impetuous child

We have thrown our rebel tantrum

We have risked our mortal souls

Heaven beckons us from chaos

from the brink of our undoing

from the certainty of a global grave

We respectfully remind you

of your ageless,

mutually arising wisdom

Taste carefully,

the urgency of commerce

Weigh judiciously,

the opportunity of trade

Consider wisely,

the burden of

lost time

Let us gather our wills together

Let us damn this toxic tide

Let us nourish the mouths between us

and sever the bonds of distrust

Our fates are bound

Our promise untested

Let us conquer ourselves,

together