PARTIES.

Everyone welcomed: pivots and fulcrums,
Fingers and thumbs.

Everyone taken: the stirred and the shaken,
The paper and pen.

Everyone greeted: the loved and mistreated,
The written and read.

Everyone furnished: the well and malnourished,
The private and public.

Everyone sated: the vain and deflated,
Victors and invaded.

Everyone mellowed: friends and bed fellows,
The cushioned and pillowed.

Everyone frozen: the cast out and chosen,
The open and closing.

Everyone dreaming: the likely and un-seaming,
The silent and screaming.

Everyone woken: the laughing and joking,
The brave and the broken.

Everyone parted: the weak and stout hearted,
The charters and charted.