At precisely 2:15 tomorrow afternoon
something will happen somewhere
and neither you nor I will be there
to see it, nor will we know that it happened.
Neither of us can say for certain
what we will be doing at that time,
and perhaps where we will be then
There is a kind of sadness in this
so many possibilities disappearing
before they can be recognized.
Perhaps you are not saddened by this
but now you question if you should be.
I apologize for planting seeds of doubt
but doubt is one thing I can freely share,
and you may just be suddenly more
attentive tomorrow at precisely 2:15
and will see something you might
otherwise have missed, and that
may lead to other things you might
also have missed by being inattentive
and that is a gift that cannot be valued.