Are you smooth and round and blue and green? <br />Do you turn around from west to east? <br />Can you see your neighbors from afar? <br />Are any neighbors like you are? <br /> <br />A tiny beacon, I am to you <br />Too small to see the rest of you <br />On faith I take it, the earthly claims <br />Truth by scholars, so proclaimed <br /> <br />I dig my hand to fill a need <br />For proof of you is proof of me <br />Earthly neighbors and space and such <br />Leave me vexed on life and such <br /> <br />I'm more inclined to see the things <br />Beneath my feet and above my wings <br />That's all I need to get me through <br />The beauty of earth, the forever you<br /><br />Keith Parsons<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lovely-planet/
