All The World is

Everyone is an actor
proclaiming and spitting
and farting in the grandest
gestures.

I wish that for one day
I could wonder about a person's
individual beliefs or emotions.

Every day I am assaulted
by complaints and stances
and gripes.
By bumper stickers
and news reports
and Op-Ed
and opt out
horns blaring
and flags waved.

A civilization with one desire
to always be
right.

Everyday the ocean churns
and the mountains hum
and the trees give oxygen
and the air sustains
and all the important
and necessary mechanics work
to ensure mankind's survival-

without making a single sound.