Step One Poem by Dianne Feaver

Similarities
existing beyond the bounds
of place or time
set in motion
blood and bone
to move
in step;
synchronicity
the reason why
only children

still

greet each other
as their elders
cannot
in meadow, suburb, laneway
or the pavement of the backstreet,
familiarities
of language or colour, then
skip in time,
bred to be together
to run as

one world

like the school-yard race in June
everyone
a common reason,
to chase summer out the door
and take
that joyful leap
toward
freedom.