To LARDO and Lola

there’s a flowering
a sky inside a sky.
be open, be like a rainbow
don’t take on its human colours
you’re fair, life’s for you
you’re earth, the ground is yours
do not forget to be human
do not hold on to dark clouds
rain if you must in November
there’s no manual, there’s only us

hold—
hold on tighter,
it may fit, it may misfit,
just hold on longer
there is what it is out there.
everything is yours like light
it exists so dark must live.
be bright, glow
there’s a moon somewhere in you
just hold on and see.

Ruddapoet