In community lies strength of numbers. <br />to support the sick and the weak. <br />In community somebody hears me, <br />with louder voices to speak <br /> <br />In community lies public purpose, <br />to shield from the harshness of life. <br />To offer and receive common friendship, <br />to protect from the gun and the knife <br /> <br />In community we teach each other <br />about science and art and sport. <br />From this we gain our vitality, <br />and through this our sickness is fought. <br /> <br />In community others surround us. <br />Their dreams, their love and their faces, <br />encourage our hearts to prosper; <br />our minds to accept other places. <br /> <br />In community disaster may come <br />But, grief shared and faith in our all, <br />makes death's pall linger less strongly, <br />our tears with others can fall. <br /> <br />In community lies man's ambition. <br />Without, makes larger our fears. <br />Together we make sense of being <br />and bring joy and length to our years.<br /><br />Sailing to windward<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-community/
