today, sunday is for reading poetry but yesterday was for breathing heavy maybe tomorrow is for walking for searching for listening to the sounds that the wind makes like a nurse on a cigarette break like children two parents raise maybe tomorrow is for singing to you in a voice so heartbreakingly small it makes souls shake maybe tuesday is for calling my grandfather for feeding on the genius of humble experience for drinking in the songs of decades before me. maybe wednesday is for resting resting like reflections on a river's face always in the same place but moving, vibrating, dancing maybe thursday is when it rains too hard and the house is too cold to be comfortable maybe the thunder makes the dogs bark and the echo of a leaky sealing screams at me "you'll never be as much as you hoped you'd be" but on friday mornings, i'll watch the flowers grow i'll walk down a new street looking for a child's face and tugging on his confidence like shoe strings because he deserves to know he can run and run faster than he ever dreamed maybe saturday is for breathing heavy but maybe for better reasons maybe in the setting sun, when i can see an alive love in the corners of the cashiers mouth, maybe thats too much maybe my lungs swell up maybe sunday night when i've finally let the poems aside you'll ask me again, "what is life?"
what is life. maybe this time i'll smile i'll smile because we both know we just forget sometimes life isn't, we are. maybe sunday night is for changing the way you ask questions because the first one didn't bring the right answer maybe it's time we asked what it is to be alive. because we know, oh you know the answer is there in that little gasp the stars steal on the darkest nights and in the look of a mother's eyes its that feeling in your chest, the one that feels like the wings of tiny blue birds drumming to a song that our ears don't know how to hear over the engines of cars but a song that our eyes see, in the lights of a city at midnight to be alive is to feel the pain that comes with knowing you're far away but also knowing that that pain exists because you, you're the match of my creation, if only for this moment. to be alive is love the sunrise because even when it is too much for your tired eyes, even when you broke during the night, the sun comes to set it right.
show me what it means to be alive it never stops it goes on like a river, finds it's way into an ocean it continues like pages of poetry, the songs that a heart sings, a mind stitching up dreams. today sunday is for reading poetry but yesterday was for breathing heavy.