Day # 310: Both Concrete and Metaphor (Day 6)

#310

Visibility

The sun finally 

returned to me today.

It's face emerged from the oceans

of clouds.

The seas parted 

before my eyes

revealing a 

brilliant blue

for a few short hours

before my world surrendered

to darkness too early.

Tonight I will 

stare up at the stars

and wonder about what 

weather and seasons

are cycling 

in all the other worlds.

Hydrogen and oxygen,

gravity and proximity,

but l only notice

if it's within my visibility.

                              c GRACE

Since I was a young adolescent

I've thought about why people do what they do

Why they act the way they act

say the things they say?

Why would someone chose to hurt your feelings?

Why would someone not understand?

These questions were apparent.

Their answers a tangled web, a maze

to follow like a fool, drink tea, keep a journal

muscle through late at night.

I still ask the same basic questions,

they have just increased in complexity.

We talk about layers and perspectives

and cultures and what people know as normal.

They are the questions answered in novels

or discovered in movies, or a great play.

They are the questions mulled over on bike rides,

a sail on a warm day, just a hike in the woods

or at the dinner table with an older friend.