How we overcame

all through weighty whys
and burdening hows, screaming whats
and the delicate

questions of whos, the
untimeliness of whens, and all
the dislocations

of wheres, on this day,
we will toast to silly choices
we cannot undo.

those that made us wings,
feather after feather, until
we could fly again.

leonell echa