Some Words for the Week

I drive down the city road

and I think about

the problems of the world

the people sleeping on the street

the litter in the wind

the lack of snow in December

and overwhelmed with worry

and ware

and trying to fit some fun

into the weekend

after a long week of work

I sit at a stop light

and attached to a streetlight

I see an ad for an exhibit

at the history museum

about the ice age

and I smile

because I realize that

for the earth

all this

the city

the suffering

the failing government

every human life

is just a sneeze

a faint brush of air

a sort of nothing

that everything I’ve ever seen

was once buried in ice

and that one day

it will be again

and my credit card bill

and my empty gas tank

and the meaning of my life

everything I’ve ever thought

or loved or feared

will live and die

and live and die again

so will I

and eventually

after the great warming

the ice will come again

and in some form

we all will too

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com