Pay Attention

If you are bored you are not paying attention

pay attention to every moment

drive along a country road

turn off the radio

with its stories of bombs and

   cannons killing the innocent and the not so innocent,

   housing foreclosures,

   falling dollars, rising dollars,

   radioactive tsunamis.

Turn it all off and watch the flowers, the trees

   stand witness

   filling the air with air.

the irregular pavement

jostling you in your seat

this way and that

see that bird land on the road

   only to take off again

where am I going?

not there yet

I’m here