(With a nod to Mary Oliver)

at some point 

(dear one)

you’ve got to be okay 

with not everyone liking the note you play

the shape you bring

the song you sing

Otherwise you will

spend your whole precious life

controlling how your shape appears to others

What a great shame that would be

to

a strange and wonderful few

who 

just like you

took a rather different eddy

and really enjoy humming along

to your ever revealing melody

she’s been there

calling us on

disguised within

her many forms

crashing through

invisible ceilings + walls

smashing through

endless closed doors

so that

we may

glide in, slide in

shimmy and stride in

a billion times more easily

than the generations before

- thank you