Being There

Hyped up, the celebration

Is the event of the time.

Turned down,

You reject it in an instant.

Yes, you’d like to be there.

You would if you could.

But it’s not the way things

Seem to go, this time.

No, it’s not the will of the universe

To bring you to that point.

To have you there,

With friends and family,

Making the most

Of a little thing,

But, oh, it’s much bigger

Than anything else that’s happened

In your life in many years,

More than in theirs as well.

To be there, to toast to paradise,

To give a revelation,

Of things to come,

To speak the unspeakable,

To challenge the present

With what you have,

What you’d wish

For those you love,

The ones you live with,

And the ones you only see

Every once in a while.