Youth, when songs rained like carnival confetti
Reaching to touch as many as on me
To release their concealed joy
Each and every one
Held an answer
Made a promise
Began a journey.
Now I look to one distant constellation
On a cosmic stave
A chorus contorting to the shape of my path
Arpeggio moments
Their light has just reached me
Like hearing for the first time
Like listening.
AMALGAMATED WONDERS OF THE WORLD 