SPACE INVADERS; WE ARE NOT ALONE
I look to my left. There is a couple calmly arguing about their son. She is accusing him of not being a good dad. He can’t understand why she says this because he was there when the boy woke up that morn. After walking about 5 feet I wish that I had said something. Something like, like…..I don’t know. They probably would have slapped me for saying something.
Now I look to my left. What I see and what folk are doing doesn’t matter. I’m not alone. I don’t see anybody that I’m attracted to. I don’t see anybody that I want to talk to. I sit, I pretend like I can’t tell folk want to talk to me. I hope that no one talks to me. Dang, this lady just said something to me.
Because we are not alone I wish that I were a butterfly. Why? A butterfly gets away with so much. A butterfly is the culprit but never expected as or to be the culprit. A butterfly is given sanctuary then never bothered. If someone trys to catch a butterfly its to put the butterfly in a safe place so that it can live and survive. The butterfly gets away with murder.
I’m thinking all this while this lady is speaking to me. When she’s done I smile and nod my head yes as if I had been listening or interested in what she was saying.
Thank God we are not alone. If I where alone I wouldn’t have a place or time to be ugly. Or a time to let the butterfly wander in my mind.
I don’t know what that lady was talking about and I don’t care. All I remember is that butterfly flying around in my head.
What do you do when you realize that you are alone? Panic? Stop breathing? Anxiety about your breath? I invite you to stop such foolishness, instead let the butterfly dance in your head.
SOT; A little folly outweighs wisdom.