Anxious

The tension can always go deeper.
Cooperation all the way down
From the international systems

To the nation states, to the kingdoms,
Provinces, cities, villages, clans,
Kin groups, farms, nuclear families,

Individual organisms,
Holobionts, if you’ve got any,
Microbial sub-ecosystems,

Within single-celled organisms,
Among the bacteriophages,
Smaller, smaller, quicker and quicker,

Maybe, to begin with, bilipids
Lovingly encircling loose proteins.
Does it come to an end, anywhere?

At what point does cooperation
No longer influence anything,
No coordination, no tensions

Among any conflicts of interest?
When are there no conflicts? No interests?
Do even atoms trade off tensions?