It’s the same stretch of
pavement that I walk five days a week. In the morning my walk into work the
ground shows me the evening before I see the normal litter of cigarette butt and
wrappers. But I also see love that never happened and gift that were lost. I
step over meals that refused to stay down and pint glasses taken from their
homes.
I lock the door at the end of my shift the remnants of
last night have been picked up. Today I sit on step and watch the street that
humming with excitement. I see first dates just starting and friends meeting up
for drinks. I see family picking up that last thing at the store and older
people heading home for the evening. This is what I’m going to be doing next.
This is one of those vignettes I think would be stronger without the last sentence, a very common occurrence. You set up here as an observer, not a participant, and IMO ought to stay an observer right to the end.
ReplyDeleteI like very much your description of what you see.