This One Is For All of you
who write these words on the dry erase board

This One Is For All of you
who speak these words with passion

This One Is For All of you
who print these words that remind us of the present

This One Is For All of you
who beat boxes into circular breathes that break poems into beats we can eat

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with our ears
as you write these rhythms
into voices that represent US

This One Is For All of you
who provide input, express gifts, and participate fully

This One Is For All of you
who greet us like we are family

and smile at us like we are kin

and set us up like we are royal

This One Is For All of you
who display who they really are

This One Is For All of you
who keep tradition dancing

This One Is For All of you
who pack more gear than is suppose to fit
in a white van
headed North
into the rain

This One Is For All of you
who remind us poetry allows us to fly

and rest our tired bodies
from greeting each others with smiles all day

This One Is For All of you
who organized us, booked us, and baby sat us

This One Is For All of you

WHO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY as a POET of the sum it.