How many honest children,

How many weeping caregivers,

How many beaten providers,

How many queer and straight,

How many families and friends,

How many earthen cultivators,

How many uniquely gifted,

How many bodily disabled,

How many will do, how many?

How many living water pipes,

How many paved mover roads,

How many calm thinking parks,

How many schools of culture,

How many housing blocks,

How many busy marketplaces,

How many thriving businesses,

How many shared amenities,

How much will it cost, how much?

How much of our innocence,

How much of our wise morality,

How much of our honest love,

How much of our beautiful virtue,

How much of our inner humanity,

How much of our obvious truths,

How much of our intelligent ethics,

How much to overcome, how much?

And when there’s nothing left,

What then will we be, what?

How great will be the cost,

And will we still have a soul?