molto vivace.
pick up the rhythm.  
this piece isn't made as a dirge.
fight the urge to drag it out and shout in staccato celebration.
get up.  
get up and live.  
too many penanced points on their knees.
nothing pleases the fates more than a fumbled smile.
style yourself on something with wings.
with jets.
hell, with rockets roaring.
a Saturn 1b with throttle at one hundred ten percent thrusts wide open.
unbottled genies don't sit on their hands waiting for the channel
to change or some deranged soul to buy a vowel to win
a chance at a moment's mediocrity.
pretty big world.
and tonight 
it just might 
be exciting, as well.
molto vivace.


copyright William F. DeVault (wfdv)