step by step we tread on soil

not fully knowing the beauty of the toil

going into maintaining an inch of biosphere

home to trillions of organisms dear

in the same boat you me as we

common home common web common ancestry tree

participants around the table of life

we enjoy, smile, dance despite the strife

bound by chords that cannot be broken

tongues are tied for food makes us leaven

our future is in our hands

learn we must from the shifting sands