Before the years vanish
Let your body wander.
Be a lover, a traveler.
Let the theatrical lights
shine on you.
Bathe in the syllables
of adventure.
Crown the stars, and
dine on constellations.
Drink up the sunlight.
See the Nile, and tropical islands.
Take note of each sunset,
the mountains, the ocean.
Don’t let there be
a single empty page
in your life book.
Be a door swung open,
withhold nothing.
Dare to do, so you have
no regrets.
Don’t let your life
be haunted by dreams
that happened elsewhere,
and to someone else.
Haunted by the ones you never met,
the journeys you failed
to take.
Lift your arms up
and embrace what you make be.
Belong to the jungle,
the marketplace,
the English cottage,
the abbeys of Italy,
the domes, and to all
the scenes of your life.
-Tosha Michelle
