The Day Everyone Gathered at Shore of the Music

All ages
Everyone came
marching to the
Shores of the Music that day


e.e. and his big
balloon crying whee
touched down
on the sand
and the tri-colored
beach ball said,
“Yellow”-“white”-“Red!”
all day long
as the children
smiled and the elderly
laughed
and everyone in-between
decided
that they were all
the same after that
and the Sun
said, “Bright.”
and hung lower
and lower still


Skin glowed gold
and bronze
and Feet said,
“yum, water, wind”
and bags crumpled
and chips crunched
and Everyone
was brave again
because they were
alive and safe
by the city, by the sea
and the silent
sounds of waves
yet to be broken