Running with the Sky

Step.
Push.
Breathe.
Think.
Don’t give up.
Don’t give in.

Look up at the sky and notice the endlessness
and how you are so out of breath that it feels
like you could inhale the entire sky, clouds, sun
and stars
and the sky will spread from your lungs to your
heart and itself will then run with you and through
your bloodstream to each fingertip and point
maybe shedding a little bit of beauty on
the places you feel the least.