Let’ do this
Before me must carry canes
Let’s walk our names around the earth
A few times to make others smile again
Let’s do this
Old men, before our twinkle is only useful to angels
And those in mid flight between worlds.
Let’s do this
Bless all the names we’ve known by name
Before we too are etched on stones
And remembered only for what we were
While we are still here in skin and bones,
Let’s do this, being-here-now thing.
And let’s do it before we are leaning over, wilted flowers
Lurched inside of what we were, and just about to stand up straight-
To be erected by sunlight again, but
Where only angels will see us
And notice our steps….and note
Our standing upwards again.