will you walk with me? around the moon and beyond the stars up and up until our brains feel light and our lips turn blue
When we look over our shoulders we notice the insignificance of things that are truly insignificant
the dog the car the microwave oven that set of keys I lost and still can't find the movie that comes out this weekend that you can't wait to see my English degree the lawn that we accidentally forgot to mow for four straight weeks my mother your mother the way you take your coffee with milk and sugar the list of unwatched romantic comedies on our Netflix que the advice I get from Suze Orman the indent your body made in my double bed our leaky roof your Dean's List grades and above average MCAT score our set of home decor from IKEA that we assembled ourselves Frank Zappa's Tinseltown Rebellion that trip we always wanted to go on but never had the time to plan Our aspirations that we neatly folded up tucked away and pretended to forget.
Even you.
Even you. Even you don't affect the way the world turns.
No matter how hard we stomp or yell or scream or push or pull or heave