07/24/2012
Family of Living Light
This family reunion is a cascading sigh
of hearts that have felt homesick
for so long;
a melting pot of long-suppressed
“thank you”s and “I love you”s
bubbling out of every crack
in any façade.
The gathering of the nobodies into somebody's -
an accidental grin shatters our masks of apathy,
our common goofiness proving stronger
than our stranger-ness.
All day the sun shines and
we are the people
who wait for each other
and share the last drop of water.
At night, under the stars
we are the people
who hold hands and pray to the fire,
dancing and swooning to
The beat of the drums –
the deep heartbeat of this
flash-flood utopic civilization.
We sing to the dawn in celebration
of this beautiful confirmation:
humanity’s sweetness.
Family of Living Light
This family reunion is a cascading sigh
of hearts that have felt homesick
for so long;
a melting pot of long-suppressed
“thank you”s and “I love you”s
bubbling out of every crack
in any façade.
The gathering of the nobodies into somebody's -
an accidental grin shatters our masks of apathy,
our common goofiness proving stronger
than our stranger-ness.
All day the sun shines and
we are the people
who wait for each other
and share the last drop of water.
At night, under the stars
we are the people
who hold hands and pray to the fire,
dancing and swooning to
The beat of the drums –
the deep heartbeat of this
flash-flood utopic civilization.
We sing to the dawn in celebration
of this beautiful confirmation:
humanity’s sweetness.