All of Us

Eyes closing, closing

body horizontal

breathing, breathing

Lift your voice

and lay it down

softly over my ears

like a red sheet escaping the laundry line

to play costume dress-up with the wind

Send me someplace--

express it in the mail;

 or better yet,

 take me anywhere

Let's run like our legs won't meet never

Let's skip like our hearts are pretend

Our hands a round-trip ticket

We'll see if we could bend

the time between now and the end

until it becomes a hula hoop

that we will throw over the moon

and laugh, and laugh

and smile so loud

that the lost will find our lips

and be kissed back in tune

All of us

the sad, the lonely, 

the weary, 

the lower,

the higher,

December's cold

August's fire

the full,

the hollow,

the giant's lead

and the young to follow

 the all rights and okays

the sapphire blues

and sea of grays

All of us

 all at once,

link our keys
all on the same ring

then toss them up high
and hear the jingle cry

until prison lets us out

and home lets us in