Celebrate

Come celebrate with my family,

and I'll celebrate with yours.

We'll tell of how we crawled

to light

from rabid shores,

seething seas of teeth,

to deserts and oases.

Come dance the eternal dance,

come laugh with your aunts.

Love is easy here -

love is everywhere.

We are one and the same;

we play the fighting game,

we love hard through the pain.

We cling like creepers

to the house,

the house of humanity -

how we defy gravity,

and then land with a bump.

We're knocked about

by love.

Come celebrate with my family -

you're a sister I never met,

a brother I never knew,

caught in a different net,

a lover love chewed;

a blanket or a cover,

the desperate warmth of the moon.

Peel your lips,

lift your hands,

give palmer's kiss,

sophist's bliss,

and we'll celebrate.