Light Shows

There is a man, older than I

above me looking

at the same show of lights

in the sky, meditating perhaps

or just sitting. All I know

is that he looks at these lights

as I do, and that he is above me.



There was a different time

when I was above him

and he was below,

and we were looking

at a different light show.

The way he looked,

then nudged a friend,

had a sense

not of meditation,

or idleness,

but of fear,

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