July

All we have is right now

Right here

I listen to the voices

On a Sunday morning

It’s about co-existing

I like to refer to it as Enlightened Duality

Just another day

Another way to live

30 minutes for a lunch break and I head to my car

There’s a man sitting on the curb across from where I’m parked

“Homeless Need Work” his sign reads

On any other day

I’d take my food somewhere else

So I wouldn’t have to share it with his hungry eyes

Changing my environment

The task at hand is to make it work

Not to suffer

Not to indulge

Existing while others live

Living while others exist

Allowing others to exist in my own world

No pity

No regret

Don’t sweat the small stuff

It’s really all small stuff anyway

I sit in my car and eat my lunch

He sits on the curb holding his sign

We do not speak to each other

We do not even look at one another

We don’t need to

All we have is right now