The Dance

together

We have made oceans

move

through our dance

the seas have roared to life

and your fate

has dripped

into this world

He speak

you listen.

you speak,

He listen

and

drip, drip, drip

how every moment

is a drop

that must fall:

irreversible

inevitable

and permanent–

painting a canvas

that harbors your story

whether you authored it

or merely persisted

as others steered it

how you are so powerful

yet so fragile

changing the fabric

of the very world

yet living

from beat to beat

each thump a gift

of which the next

is never guaranteed,

nor ever deserved

oh, fountain pen,

live with urgency

for life is urgency