The Last Best Party

If you knew

that you had 

only 10 days

(instead of years)

who would you choose 

to count out 

the hours with

who would you gather

together 

to have the 

last best party of

the light of your life

if you think about

it now

this is the 10 days

we all should be 

living

I am making the 

invitation list

now

you for teaching me

to love books and you

two for showing me

what love looks like

and you for 

lifting me up

out of the black emptiness 

and all of you

for the sun rising

in the morning 

and you for respect 

and never noticing 

that I am a girl and 

short because in your

eyes I walk 

up to the sky

and you for carrying 

the shield at my 

left side and

you for telling me

that I also

light up the world

when I go 

through the gate

tomorrow 

or in 10 days

or 44 years

after knowing you

I will be sure

to regret nothing