Wherever You Are, Look

Wherever You Are, Look

Wherever you are, look out the window
(please let there be a window)—
at the sky, at something green
if you can find it;

This world can't exist
just to grind us down,
I refuse to believe it.

And if I'm wrong, at least
let me be ground down
not by concrete and rulers—

Let me be crushed
under the weight of a mountain,
the sight of a storm
and the towering, lightning-cracked redwood.

The view out my window right now is… uninspiring, to say the least. I can see a single tree off in the distance; the rest is all concrete. There are a lot of advantages to living downtown, but I am still a backwoods person when it comes down to it, I suppose!

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