Earth Town Square

Once, we were lonely islands

Divided by horizons

A hundred thousand tribes surviving, scattered far and wide

Hearing only stories

Of distant territories

Peering out across the miles between our shorelines

Then, we harnessed nature's forces

Straddled backs of horses

Waging wars and crossing borders as our numbers grew

We bought and sold and traded

Oceans were navigated

And fates entwined by rails and roads and telephones, and soon

We cracked the code of flight

Spoke via satellite at the speed of light, and

Now, it's feeling like a small town

With six billion people downtown

At a little sidewalk fair

In Earth Town Square

There are Germans selling Audis

Filled with gasoline from Saudis

To Australians sipping Kenyan coffee in their Chinese shoes

Argentines are meeting Mongols

Over french fries at MacDonald's

And the place looks strangely tiny when you see it from the moon

And there's music in the park, kalimbas and guitars

Bagpipes and sitars

Now, it's feeling like a small town

With six billion people downtown

Even Babel can't compare

To Earth Town Square

And as each hour goes by, ten thousand more arrive

And the din gets louder on Main Street

Where you can watch downtown boom

And wonder if we'll make room

For everybody there

In Earth Town Square