Original: For Travis (2012)

I wrote this a few years ago as a gift for my older brother.  Geek on!

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For Travis

This is for all the wardrobe explorers,

The brown-coat-clad defiers,

And the single-bound tall-building leapers,

For the what-the-frak swearers,

The ruby-slipper heel-clickers,

And the Millennium-Falcon-model assemblers;

Listen, you Shire leavers,

Fourteen-foot-scarf knitters,

And don’t-tell-me-it’s-futile resisters,

You sing-along bloggers,

Robotics-law abiders,

And great-responsibility great-power bearers;

To the red-pill takers,

The don’t-panic hitchhikers,

And the midnight-showing lightning-scar wearers,

To the vampire slayers,

The god-of-thunder hammer-lifters,

And the impossible-things-before-breakfast believers;

This is my message to you: 

Pay the skeptics no mind.

Life is as big, and wild,

And magic, and star-blazing

As you let it be.