Ark

God sent me a message to show we still have worth
Gather two of every kind of people on the Earth
Russians and Australians, Chinese and the Ghurkas
Artists, bankers, unemployed and actors from the circus.
Don’t forget a pair of Shirr and of course the Sunni
Include the dour and bleak of heart, and stand-ups who are funny
We will need the anorexic, the morbidly obese
We’ll need a pair of criminals, and a matching set of police.
Can you find two Jedi, two vicars and two nuns?
We’ll need two squabbling daughters, two aggravating sons
Please hurry all of you to follow this instruction
The ark is here to save us from our mutual destruction.
But when I’d found a pair of each, so when my task was done
I found I had seven billion for I had everyone.
The ark is here, it is the Earth and it can save us all
But don’t forget it’s fragile and relatively small.
Steve Blakesley © 2020