wakedream

ok close your eyes and imagine this:

blue skies, warm sand, lapping waves, ocean breeze, calming sunshine.

now open your eyes and realize:

there are other people in the world and encapsulated life is not reality.

by all means stop and smell a flower

but when you pick up your head watch out for the X1 speeding by.

ya might just get smooshed.

and if it isn't a bus maybe its a bolt

or a break

or a storm.

so then like adults we learn to

suck up the pain and be grateful there are feelings to feel

and the numb gets overwritten

with something other than the me me me.

because it's exhausting how egocentric

how small

how hurtful

how petty

how closed-minded

how blind to the obvious

people can be.