18th of May

Today is one of mist

To be felt if only just barely

To be seen if only just slight

It’s there to fill you

Surround you

And ask only for you to step into it

Whether in tip-toeing trepidation

Or full-footed flamboyance

Reach into it.

As the minutes slide by

This day moves as yours.

I’ve been around for nearly 6784, if my calculations are right

and I’m hoping for at

Least that many more

Paring it down to that fraction instead of

Full years puts such a weight and

Perspective become where this,

Right here,

Matters.

So in this mist let the faeries out

Let the kindergarteners run from their classrooms

Lets the princesses come down from their towers

Let the soldiers drop guns from their knowing hands

And let your dreams find words.

In dimly lit living rooms,

Sharing midnight secrets and

Fears that are all really the same,

Cut open your chest

Reach in, with all your blood and guts getting in the way

Push past all ache

Find your heart and
With its beating beating

Pull it out and set it here for me to see

Because no matter how much you

Want anonymity and hidden corners

I’ve never been so determined to find someone.

Come out in this day

With chimes singing to us in the wind

And choirs of birds like children singing to Jesus in perfect dress clothes

Take flight with them

In the ground that moves ever so slowly

Lay and be rocked from this reality

For the green is so becoming.