I was thinking
how amazing it was that the world
contained so many lives.
Out in these streets people were embroiled
in a thousand different matters, money problems,
love problems,
school problems.
People were falling in love,
getting married,
going to drug rehab,
learning how to ice-skate,
getting bifocals,
studying for exams,
trying on clothes,
getting their hair-cut
and getting born.
And in some houses people were
getting old and sick
and were dying,
leaving others to grieve.
It was happening all the time,
unnoticed,
and it was the thing that really mattered.”
