Chicken Little

Chicken Little was wrong.

The sky is not falling

   everyone knows that.

But, do you know that

   a tree sucks up bits of the air

   and plants them in the earth?

If I were to state

   with great certainty,

   in a steady voice,

“The shortest distance between

   up and down is not a straight line”

Would you doubt your knowledge?

If a second voice would add

   “Yes he is right     it is true”

Would you give in then?

How many would it take,

   Two   Three   Ten?

At what point would

   your stomach begin to turn?

There is one thing worse than being right

   and that is being alone.

Do you see that, over there,

   out of the corner of your eye?  Could it

   be a piece of sky drifting down slowly

   end over end.