You are a camera

Observing the world

The blue, the green,

Every person

You’ve ever seen;

You are an audio recorder

Capturing the sounds –

Cars in the distance

A dog barks somewhere

As a jet flies overhead

And a motorcycle

Accelerates

Away from you

In the ever-present

Static of the wind;

You are a sponge

Absorbing the people

That pass through your life

Remember the laughter

Let their crying

Spill over you like water

Until you down in it;

You are a record of influence

Played before am audience

Until the silence of the finale

Sends them all away.