Hope Is Your Homeland

Do good today. Be dangerous

about it. Don’t be afraid

to disturb cynicism around you.

Wreck it joyfully because

night is nothing more

than the thinnest membrane

trying to harden over

this luminous word.

May you live long enough

to know what it means

to stagger beneath the

weight of gratitude for

everyone who showed you how

morning light keeps stealing

shadows from along the edges

of everything.