Let us live as we are the letters dancing
around inside our hearts that turns our blood
into the painful art of poetry

Let us inhale and exhale and take in
and breath out all the love
that is always there in the air
and with full lungs let us shout out
into the infinite silence


and

       emptiness                                    

                                         of

                         space


and dance in the echo that bounces back to us

Let us hear the music in the silence
of the stars above us
and let our feet find heaven
in the earth we walk upon
for we need not die before we enjoy
the rewards of a life well lived
for a life well lived is a reward onto itself
let us be kind and generous
    
              with the time
        
                                     our hands carry

              and the love

our hearts

            
          have to give


                   for tomorrow is not guaranteed


            and today carries the gift

and burden
      
       and beauty
        
    of possibly being our last

Let us forgive ourselves
for the wrongs we have done
and those that have wronged us
carry nothing from today
into tomorrow
   that will way us down
we will fail and we will fail again
but let us not stop
  getting up
    again
      and
       again

We have already won
the most important race of our lives
back when we found a home
in our mothers belly long ago
and life is no different
   or more cruel
      or less beautiful
as it was as we learned to crawl
  and then to walk
    and then to run
      and jump
        and dance
and as we fell back then
we instinctively got back up
  and tried
    and tried
      again

Let us not forget how beautiful
a journey we have already been on

Let us be grateful for all the tomorrows
and pages of the stories
we may still have to live and write yet
let us not fear death but find it adds value
to every extra day we wake up
   every new breath we take
     every smile we see
       and every smile we give back

be kind to strangers

let us not let the milk of human kindness
  spoil and go to waste
let us help those in need as our responsibility
and let no opportunity in doing so go to waste
   we are all
     of the same earth
       the same bones
        the same flesh
         the same blood
          the same heart
          
Let the only place we find hate in our vocabulary
be in the innocence of our children’s words
when expressing they do not like their green beans
or aunts fruit cake
let us learn as much from our children
as we fumble through teaching them

   how horribly beautiful
      and terrifying life can be

Let us remember magic is only as real
  
     as we make it

and can only survive

    by us believing in it

and this is a far more important and valuable lesson
than anything money can buy
and the most treasured and sacred magic of all

is made from love

let us never forget this
let our children never forget this
and let their children’s children
always protect this as long
as we may live here on this earth
and in whatever may wait for us
as our bodies return to dust and ash

Let us find the wisdom to know that true beauty
is nothing we could ever see with our eyes
and let us have the wisdom to be blinded
by the colors of love in the things we cannot see
and in finding these things to be true
may we walk forward from this day forth
and know that beauty is the thing we feel
in the letters dancing in our hearts
that turns our blood
into the painful art of poetry