Noticed

"Noticed"


A forest so dark in the faint twilight,
Walks through a sunlit park so bright,
The lonely song of a Humpback Whale,
Startled flight of a frightened quail,

The Indians' sacred council ground,
A fighter that flies faster than sound,
Some things we just don't understand.
Hearing the sound of my favorite band,

A waterfall thunders over the edge.
The next door neighbor trims a hedge.
Beautiful girls tanned down by the pool,
A bitter old drunk on a wooden bar stool,

The stock market prices that fluctuate.
Jumpers, high in the sky, that hesitate,
Worker bees that groom their queen,
Fresh mowed grass so fragrant and green,

Waves crashed onto white sandy shores.
A farmer in his barn doing his chores.
The Grisly Bear sleeps through winter.
A little boys' mother removes a splinter.

Time catches us all with total surprise.
Thieves and liars caught in their lies,
Lovers enraptured each by the other,
One man calls his enemy his brother.

Paramedics race to save a baby's life.
Another angry man beats his wife.
Stll another job moves to old Mexico.
One man dies, the other digs a hole,

One man chained up by still another,
A wounded soldier cries for his mother.
The wind blows through a stand of trees.
Young jobless people with college degrees.

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