I awake from sleep and must know
what happened during the night.
Sleep hid a hemisphere
still awake and out of sight.
I do not want to hear
what happened yesterday, here.
That is old news to me.
I want only new news.
Only what is new is truly news, you see.
Rehashing yesterday’s facts
is not the new news we need.
We want to know about
the facts we cannot see,
what happened while
we were still asleep.
Half the world was still awake
and holds news we should know
to understand, to connect us to our globe.
Certainly, technology exists today
to bring such facts our way.
And, 24/7 you have the air time.
So, bring the news from other spheres.
Bring offshore news to us.
Learning more, seeing deeper
builds inter-hemisphere trust.
We are one world. We are one people.
We sleep in shifts but must awake as one.
annarino writes 