words that came to me as i stared out a window at 3am

life isn’t so hard, really,
just one step after another.
except that won’t work,
because the roses are
not going to stoop
to smell themselves.
there are too many
things on this planet
that are too small
to be missed.
for example, did you
know that there are
blue bees?
bees, of course, are
not supposed to be
blue, but
bees, of course, do
not care much about
what they are supposed to do.
isn’t it enough to
lie in the grass
and wonder at the
beauty of it all?
the lines on your palm
are not so much longer than the
stripes on the bees,
and the hands on the clock
are not so much shorter than the
paces you’ve been walking,
and no matter how
quickly you run,
i don’t believe you
will ever run out
of roses.