IN WORK WE KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO SUCCEED

In work we know how hard it is to succeed

To try to go from dream to the real thing

Like genes express themselves alive in deed -

May all our hopes take flight with soul and wing.

To get from heart to thought to word to act -

Each day a chance for miracles and yet

Sometimes obscured, purposes lost in distracted

Streams of tasks, tasks sunk in seas of regret.

Each step anew must call for clarity

Of soul, of mind and heart, of hand and foot.

We touch, our hands make a solidarity,

Genetics indeed make clear this deep root:

One dream does not have strength to live without

All dreams, connected to things we care about.