May the delusion blooming in your brain be a prophecy for you,
a grand musical you wrote coming true: a bicycle utopia,
where nobody goes lonely or hungry, and gravity is erratic,
where everybody fly-cycles, and the only currency is songs.
Bless every overdose, every suicide, every broken hope
to the rehabilitation of the spirit
and the miracle of all souls going
wherever the dead heal
and gladden together.
May we be as trees, walking
each loss that is a cross, light as ash,
branch to our liberation leaves.
May your discharge plan be a library, open 24-7 only for you
so you can howl your longing to high ceilings
and have the stacks to yourself, every spine of every book
a testament to a particular long-winded wish,
a braille of sorts, a portal to a moon your heart makes.
May the Sunbeam loaves you crumble in the bus shelter on Humphrey Street
be as manna from heaven for the pigeons who gather at your feet.
As they launch up, may you feel a sheltering presence,
a haven created for you,
and bathe in the shadows of their wings.
May you find your way to a Section-8 place of your own,
With a window open to the stretch of sea that takes you home.
May you hear your own heart as through a stethoscope,
the tides of your island as through a conch shell.
May all the brambles we get tangled in–
the ravages of accidents and addiction,
trauma and injury, illness and time–
collapse into points of starlight,
the constellation of the body,
and the life of our stars to come.
May all the pains that estrange you
from your own life
heal into lit angels
flocking to astonish you
with more grace than you can take in.
Bless every wreck,
every collision that injured you
to be a stitch of heaven,
a place of your gladdest imagination:
a gosling sanctuary, a lake
where they swim in figure eights
while their wing joints strengthen.
Bless your vision of the witnesses who saw dust become breath.
May they tell you, in a million dawns,
The light of the world before and after time.
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