From a Window in the Fourth Floor Library

 

You would not believe what one can see
from a window in the fourth floor library:

Looking down:
                          a forty foot tall billboard says:
                          THIS IS A SIGN THAT
                          YOU SHOULDN’T DRIVE HIGH

Looking up:
                          There’s the sky.

Looking over and around:

                          You can see Harmon Creek
                          winding along a deserted highway.

Every now and then a car goes by—a rhythm section,
backdrop for bird song warm with Spring sun.

From this vantage point in the fourth floor library
one sees peace.

Somewhere the world has gone mad; somewhere
nations fight nations; neighbors fight neighbors...
scientists fight a virus.  But all that is far removed
from us on this peaceful day.

Here in the library on the fourth floor, looking eye-
to-eye with the eagle on the flagpole, it is easy to
forget dissension and disease.

Here, it is easy to believe
we can choose the world that we live in.

Smzang
May 03, 2020