Now is the time for people of good will
to join together to save all life.
Now is the time to act as brothers and sisters,
to be one people.

Now is the time to make peace.
Now is the time to join up,
all of us together,
one thing, the life force of our species,
nothing but human.

We’re in a tight spot.
Facing the danger means we’ll have to change.
We don’t like change. We like our habits,
all that’s familiar and comfortable.

We won’t change if we don’t have to.
But now we have to.
So we change.

We work from home.
We stop flying.
We drop the use of plastic.
We change for our children’s sake.

It took all the skill and energy our ancestors had
to survive hard times, to get us here.
Was all their work in vain?
Whatever they had to do to keep their children safe, they did.

So will we do now.
We are all strangers in this strange land
unless we are all family.

Hear one another,
help one another,
put your mask on,
keep a safe distance,
not from fear but from love,
O people of peace.