Today Was All of Life

Someone loved you, someone was lonely in your absence.

Someone mourned the death of a hero.

Someone said a beautiful leaf made him/her happy.

Someone hailed the new day.

Someone grew sick and tired with travail.

Someone found his/her place in the world, then doubted it.

Awed by the scope of the cosmos,

disgusted by the pettiness of mankind,

Someone regretted yesterday and hoped for tomorrow.

Content before a favorite vista,

restless with visions of greener pastures,

Someone spoke mountains.

Verses flowed like rivers from his/her imagination.

And how many songs he/she wished to sing!

And how many men/women he/she wished to love!

And this when he/she not even happy,

           but washed over in turn by grief, apathy, despair.