Step Outside

Step outside yourself.

Step outside.

There’s light shining somewhere.

Take it in,

Lace it through your bones,

Tie it tight.

There, now:

An extra skeleton for days like this,

When the one you were born with

Won’t hold you up.

If you can’t see any light,

Then taste the air.

Not far away

Someone else is breathing out

While you are breathing in.

Life circulates.

We all reach one another

Eventually.