This is the Way of the World

You can learn a lot by just looking

Photo by Stefan Grage on Unsplash

It is Sunday.
I am sitting here
on a wooden bench
watching the ripples of the river
and some rocks and trees.

The sun, 93 million miles behind me,
is making it easy to see
my own shadow on the path
between the river and me
as well as the movements
of my pen on my notebook
fishing for words.

A motorboat goes by,
but none of the clouds overhead.

Somewhere on planet Earth
a person I have never met before
is taking their last breath and
someone is taking their first,
someone is getting married
and someone is getting divorced,
someone is making a fortune
and someone is losing theirs.

This is the way of the world:
now you see it, now you don’t.

Here comes another motorboat.