Kitty Jospé
And when they did something to someone else’s life, we
perhaps carried on,
failed to pay
attention. I was
feeling in a hurry, one said, I
was overwhelmed by
all
I
had
to do, another said and I was so
busy and
on
and on
the
excuses
piled
up.
But did you take a chair outside and watch the sun?
I’m not sure who is involved with the “we”
if you were not complaining
but the fact is,
whoever “we” is, has an impact on all those
involved and surrounded by that “us”
and curious, the sun, so long the object
of worship, veneration and thanks
was shining. And we (forgive us)
were complaining while it was shining.
About this poem:
I was inspired by Ilya Kaminsky’s prologue poem to his book,
The Deaf Republic, “We lived Happily during the War”.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war