Classic Poem

We all seem to be moving together:
Little and big, clean and corrupt, superior and inferior, we all seem to be moving together:
Something is pushing us on: back of us eras and generations of men: pushing us on:
Try as we may to separate ourselves, to lift up our heads with pride, to mask and dodge:
Try as we may we cant cut loose — we may drift from the harbor but we are still on the sea.
It makes me feel so big to feel all my fathers and mothers back of me pushing me ahead:
It makes me feel so little to feel all the girls and boys, my farthest children, dragging me into the illimitable future:
It makes me feel so much like being all together — all together with all of the others:
It makes me feel so much like being all together — all together with all of myself:
It does not make me free: I am not to be free: but it is to make me love: I am to love:
And so I am not unhappy for giving up what I never possessed and getting what I never expected:
For the feel of the ground, the feel of the air we breathe, is the feel of being together:
For the feel of the dreams of my soul and the feel of the fires of my body is the feel of being together:
For having all the earth to myself would be nothing to me if I did not have the people inhabiting the earth:
For being promoted to paradise would be less than nothing to me if I was compelled to receive salvation alone:
We all seem to be moving together: together we have meanings: any other way we have no meanings:
You with me, anyone with anyone, the blackest with the whitest, the robber with his victim:
All, all, moving together towards something big enough and good enough for us all:
Big enough for all the little, good enough for all the bad:
Moving together: not divining why or to what: but sure that the cause is sufficient, sure that the place is worth while.
There we were on the boat in the wide river: all of us moving together;
The waters moving with the sky, the stars moving with the clouds:
Nothing still, nothing dead or inert, nothing tired or worn out:
The mountains as fresh every morning as the day they were heaped up out of the first fires:
Everything moving with everything: the earth in space: distance itself with time:
Nothing left behind: not a shred or a patch: not a derelict or an outlaw:
Worlds within worlds moving, moving: souls within souls moving, moving:
Light moving with darkness, the past moving with the present:
The dead moving with the living: even the dead: the dead not lost, either: moving, moving:
Across the streams and the lands moving: across the heavens moving: all with all:
The endless procession, the march of eternities, the pilgrim deliverance: moving, moving:
Out of all into all, out of nothing into nothing: moving, forever moving:
Not stopping to argue or separate: not waiting for anyone or anything to catch up:
Knowing that all is moving together: whether a little behind or in advance what does it matter?
Knowing that though we fight we move together: or enjoy or suffer, move together:
You with me, dear brother: you with me: listen to me as I say it: moving together:
Making all the isolations useless: making all cloisters blasphemous:
Moving, moving: all together: all in the same course: moving, moving:
Farthest moving with nearest, oldest moving with youngest, together, together:
Into the enclosing darkness, into the emancipating light, moving, moving, together:
Enemies and friends, saints and sinners, beginnings and endings, all moving together:
Without reason yet with the best of reasons, passing, repassing, in tireless journeys:
Moving, moving, moving: together, together, together.

We all seem to be moving together: what other way is there to move?
The whole body and spirit of the globe undergoes a change with the simplest word I speak:
I take a single step: all life and death are recast in the ebb and flow of my desire:
There is no loss but all lose: there is no gain but all gain: we move together:
There is no love, no lack of love, but all love, but all lack love, in the current of the common sea:
Something is moving us on: something that includes us all — that sweeps us all into its competent span:
Something is moving us on: something that after it has passed has left no debris behind:
Something is moving us on: something that takes no account of castes — that only takes account of love:
Something is moving us on: all of us, with one intention: something finally hospitable:
Something is moving us on; something that after death moves on to life once more without stopping:
Something is moving us on: I feel it: its arms embrace me: its kiss is on my lips:
Something is moving us on: a personal something: a you or a me: keeping me always closest to itself:
Something is moving us on: we all seem to be moving together.