Insignificance
April 25, 2008
The
ant’s life and family under your shoe.
The
unclaimed dead in the common grave.
A
tree falling in the wilderness with no one to see or hear.
A
life lived thoughtlessly.
The
details of a project too high to be seen.
Letters
written and never sent.
The
dust under the couch.
Living
creatures on the moon.
Insignificance,
like its alternative
is
determined by the
Writer
and the reader.
The
ant,
the
mother,
the
raccoon,
the
person,
the
manager,
the
author,
the
housecleaner
and God
don’t
see the insignificance.
__________
I wrote this for an entry in a poetry contest on Allpoetry.com with the prompt, Insignificance. I won second place in the contest.
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