Happy Day

Joseph Gaoxing, you have our attention.

Great motions are afoot.

You have connected old and young;

Crossed the continental divide;

Leapfrogged time and space.

All feel better about themselves.

New life, your life, courses in.

Do ask us about this day, your day.

We stand (to a man and to a woman)

Ready to tell you.

That the life we share is

stronger because of you.

Steven Shawcross