a poem called thank you.

Thank you
To the air in my lungs for al­low­ing me to shout

Thank you
To the cre­ator for for­give­ness that I didn’t catch her name to shout it.

Thank you
To my an­ces­tors for watch­ing and let­ting me know you see me.

Thank you
To the wind for re­mind­ing me of Dan O. and his lega­cy.

Thank you
To the cities that have let me sleep on their streets when I was tired

Thank you
To the peo­ple who fed me when I was hun­gry

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

Thank you
To my feet for the abil­i­ty to walk through my neigh­bor­hood

Thank you
to my eyes for help­ing me un­der­stand beau­ty

Thank you
to the rain be­cause it is life here.

Thank you
to the fail­ures for teach­ing us lessons we need­ed to learn to grow

Thank you
to those who have hurt me for re­veal­ing my re­silience.

Thank you
To the air in my lungs again.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you
to the war­riors fight­ing every day on un­seen bat­tle­fields for your in­spi­ra­tion

Thank you
to the heal­ers for bal­ance and per­spec­tive I could nev­er gain my­self

Thank you
To the pain be­cause the cracks in my heart al­low more light in

Thank you
To every­one who’s ever for­giv­en any­one be­cause that shit is hard for hu­mans.

Thank you
To my mom for hav­ing a pi­ano in the house when I was grow­ing up

Thank you
To my dad for writ­ing my mom po­ems.

Thank you
to all the peo­ple that cre­at­ed this sa­cred lan­guage called po­et­ry.

Thank you
To all the peo­ple who share po­ems on street cor­ners for giv­ing me life.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
 
 

—an­dru de­f­eye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Guer­ril­la Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2017 An­dru De­f­eye.

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