today i am in love with everything and happy to tell you about it i am friends with the wind who sits upon my shoulder like a songbird i am friends with beggars & blue moons, mountaintops & morningtime & even the saddest songs bring me joy today i am at peace with gods of all sizes they are writing poems in the clouds and my neck is sore from looking skyward trying to memorize them today children have the wisdom of elders and elders have the innocence of children the patrons of heaven and hell are all equal (and equal to any of us on earth) all of us are perfect brilliant and foolish i once said i wanted to wear a jellyfish as a hat you said you wanted to keep a dolphin in your swimming pool and i wanted to be a roadside in my next life tonight we will all dream of one another (past and present) but we will not weep for the departed knowing that hellos and goodbyes mirror each others beauty and we all live on in a strange smiling sleep marvelous and endless as the sky