I am deeply in love
with the world;
with the improbable variables
of the universe

they collided on a tacit
turn in time;
split the beatles,
sent a man to the moon
and gave us twizzlers

and me

I was too young to see
the light,
groovy and bright;

to join the fight
down yonder;

to blow a joint in saigon;

to march with john and luther
over the bridge;

to stop life-shattering
bullets of war
and hate;

yet those stars
of fate
align

and we are here
in the flesh
with beating hearts
to start
a new
decade.

~P