Thank you to our Poets

by Tatiana Androsov, on gratitude

You are the rising waves

Coming close to cresting

I am the ebbing wave

On the other side of life

And, yet, one thing does tie us

It is our love of words

Conveying all the feelings

The stories of our species

The hopes and fears of humankind

And as I ebb and wane

Things I saw and lived

Form the substance of the books

I have finally put out.

And as you rise and crest

Things that strike your mind and heart

Form the cadence of your lives

In the form of poetic lines