we drove huddled together in a VW hatchback
to see your arms flail rhythmically to synthesized music
in a former church outside Detroit
and there wasn’t a doubt that you were doing exactly
what you were supposed to when
you let your art wash over you
even the less-inclined could not resist your happiness
when you let the light in
and years later I still think about how much the rest of us
might feel if we could but just open the valves
and remember what imagination and love
for what moves us feels like