This...

This

(this is an inspirational poem so glue your feet to the ground or u may fly)

This is for the breath the bones

And the heart

This for that inevitable end, before the start

This is for the religious, the obnoxious

And the holistic dreamers

This is for the rich and the poor

And the inbetweeners

This is for the ugly and the pretty

And the ones I'll never see

This is for the actors and the writers

And the flight attendant overnighters

This is for the athletes the musicians

And the closet-acrobat politicians

This is for the lawyers and the dancers

And the recently out of jail second-chancers

This is for the dogs and the trees

And the unemployed college degrees

This is for the train stations and the bus stops

And all those who can't sleep when they clearly need rest stops

This is for the coffee makers

The building builders

And the 4am newspaper truck drivers

This is for my dad

Michael Jackson

And that girl that walked by me on Fullerton Avenue rolling her eyes when all I wanted from her was a smile

This is for the front porch sitters

The speak easy listeners

And all the people who say that they aren't artists

This is for the blues and jazz hip hop country classical classic rock rock star punk rock glam rock goth rock followers

And all the kids that wore trench coats after columbine because it gave them an identity.

This is for the fathers and the grand-papas

The sisters and the bruthas

Everyone but the mothers

Cuz this one’s for the mothers

That raise our children and this is for the mothers that raise our women

And this is for the women that stand up - head up

This is for the blacks that don't give up

The gays that live it up

And the non-gays that speak up

For gay rights

This is for the Mexican families that say fuck your wall

Freedom is for EVERYONE

This is for Haiti

This is for Afghanistan

This is for Melbourne Beach Florida

And Chicago Illinois

This is for all that is wrong

And all those that fight

This is for the lights of the city

And the nights that are lonely

Waiting for one day of glory

This is to remind us to be humble even when standing in the cradle of success

This is to hold our hands through darkness

To tell us we are beautiful

Talented

Necessary

Appreciated

This is for all the hard work

This is for all the honesty

This is for relationships

This is for love...

Defined by every language

This is for you

This is for me

This is for all the generations of our history

This is for the future

This is who I am

This is me