People Walking Through Your Sidewalks
Take this
oxidized penny
to remember the good times we shared.
The good times we shared here
and the good times we shared over there.
In this life,
there are many things
that won’t make sense:
People walking through your sidewalks.
Rabbits falling from your eyelids.
Handless fingers hiding in your hothouse flowers.
Bullets singing lullabies to your restless children.
Never stop trying to figure out
how the big, bad words
came into the world.
A world
that will break hearts
without a second thought.
Don’t fret when you fret.
We suffer because we think
there is some dark force keeping us afraid.
But it’s just the good times here
and all the good times over there.