Declaration of Interdependence
On this day of celebrating
independence,
I declare interdependence
a new truth to be held self-evident,
all men and women created free,
interdependent on each other;
I declare what defeats and hurts
any human, anywhere,
also defeats and hurts me;
I declare that suppression
in any corner of Earth
suffocates, narrows
the air of the whole planet,
and I declare that one day
the uncontrolled emissions of anguish
from those yearning to breathe free
will vanquish all of us
unless we free ourselves to declare
on this first Day of Interdependence:
“No one is free until all of us are free!”