{"id":47706,"date":"2019-06-22T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47706"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:13:22","slug":"the-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The whispers on the wind speak<\/p>\n

I do not understand<\/p>\n

The rolling waves of the river muttering from the depths<\/p>\n

I strain to catch the words<\/p>\n

Singing, singing, singing<\/p>\n

The birds are singing<\/p>\n

Death has taken one of their own<\/p>\n

The cycle continues<\/p>\n

I cannot hear it.<\/p>\n

Life all around me<\/p>\n

Death snuffs one out<\/p>\n

The cycle continues<\/p>\n

And yet I am deaf to it<\/p>\n

The sun streams down<\/p>\n

lighting up the leaves of the trees in a golden green<\/p>\n

But I cannot see, not really see, what is happening in the shadows<\/p>\n

What have I become, a passenger in this world, watching from the window,<\/p>\n

from the train<\/p>\n

from the street<\/p>\n

All life happens when you are not looking<\/p>\n

But with your eyes, with your ears, you try to catch it all as it goes by<\/p>\n

Even then it is sometimes not enough<\/p>\n

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