Shout with joy/don’t stop never stop/no matter what this world tells you/tries to take from you/hold someone near/someone you love/and shout with joy/the day your parched bitters forget/drop everything/run/practice like your life depends on it/practice joy my love/practice joy/quiet joy has its place/often an easier companion she makes/set a place for rude/loud/extravagant/joy/let me hear you/gasp/for joy’s next breath

The beautiful girls are now/elegant expressions of grown beauty/inside and outside/I wonder if we crammed enough joy in to their days/eschewed diminishing judgments/beetled brows/I wonder if they know we saw them/see them still/shining