Loyalty or Affection: Poem

 Loyalty or Affection

I.

There was a dispute

Who is more valuable and important.

We already have a paradise

Within us.

We have loyalty and affection

At the same time.

Also, it is important to have appreciation

Of life connection.

II.

For example, water would not sound

So melodious if there

Were no rocks on its way.

In the cascade of power words

There are no waterfalls

Where there were no rocks on its way.

III.

Animals are fun.

Some hope like a bunny,

Others stomp like a bear.

Animals wiggle and flap

The entire year,

With loyalty and affection.

IV.

The wise green tree listened and said,

“I clean your air.

I give you shade.

I store carbon.

All I ask is you let me live.”

Loyalty and affection

Make the Earth appreciate

What we all have in common

In life connection.

Tomshinsky@2026