Would You Notice?

Would You Notice?



Sometimes I look up at the night sky

and I wonder what may be going on up there.

I wonder if somewhere up there someone or some thing

may be looking at their night sky pondering the same things.



A meteor streaks by as if to say that “maybe it is so.”



Sometimes I look at those far away mountains

and think that maybe I should go their way.

Get away or go away,

somewhere where I might be useful somehow

if I can be useful somehow.



I suppose I am like that last bit of sunshine

shining down on you as if I am giving you a hug

or I am that fading, whispering wind softly blowing in your ear,

trying to say something before I tucker out

if you can even hear me.



Would you notice?



Or perhaps the moonlight coming through your window

illuminates me just right to where you can see me

and I can see you for that briefest moment where we can connect.



I reflect sometimes and on what I am supposed to do to make a difference.

To matter.

I suppose we all do.

My road.

My journey.



This is not what I saw ahead or what I wanted.

Now I do not know what to do except to keep on going,

keep following this dusty, overgrown ocd/bipolar trail doing the best I can,

trying to get to where I am going or where I am needing to be.



What I do not like is being useless or at least feeling useless

and seeming to rub people the wrong way at some point or another.



Now there is a rainbow over that mountain and it is full and beautiful.

Coyotes bark and howl somewhere far away but still close enough to hear their song

and maybe that is kind of what I am in a sense,

some song being sung or perhaps that song that just pops into your mind from out of the blue.



Would you notice?

--msl2024