Diversity

A hundred million shells of white

Each one the same and side by side

All joined as one and huddled tight

Beneath the sunlit ocean tide

Are seen from space in disbelief

To decorate the endless sea

Yet what brings beauty to the reef

Is boundless vast diversity

For if each piece were all the same

The reef would surely lose mystique

And life, in turn, would feel so lame

If all who live were not unique