Ohhhhhhhhhh
When the moon pirouettes out from the mountains
picked up by the ocean as an offering to the sun, relax
the stars have got this
or
When you notice two beings intertwined by the soul
holding only time has brought with them
the shrouds of secrecy an eyelid simply shared
by a blink
or
When in autumn’s autumned August you find the beginnings
of a September wiping the dried leaves from its eyes
a brown, red, orange hue colors the day
with warmth…
If you feel something, go find a cop or an MTA employee or a person of authority
If you feel something, say something.
If this little acorn of a pulse falls from your lungs
and your heart squirrels around it only to crack
the hard smoothed shells we all seem to protect
these days with more hard smoothed shells
but once cracked, flowering tulips of long stride
lilies language the tongue into a roar
Ohhh if you feel something, say something.
When everyone’s telling you to focus on fear and what could happen
so you can’t pay attention to what is actually going on as the toll
hardened world becomes nut shelled in and all you want
to be is a nut who enjoys the freedom of lovers and flowers
Ohhh if you feel something, say something.
I’ve never known the ocean to not roar back.
I’ve never known the roar to not come from within.
I’ve never known within to not come from love.
If you love something, say something.
If you kneel, pray something.
If you’re angry, write something.
If you love someone, create something.
If the pressure gets too high and there is an overwhelming thickness of oxygen suffocating your lungs, hold someone.
If you write something, hold something.
If you need someone, say something.
If your capacity of love is holding hands with another and there is a velvet fog hovering the moon, make someone.
Ohhh if you are someone, roar something.
if you feel something, say something.
Originally Published September 28, 2013