Another Blip

Tree rings

Ice Cores

Space viewed through a powerful telescope

In any of these

I would be but a fleck of dust

At best

Only a part of a very brief moment in time

And yet I get antsy in line at the grocery store

When the person with two shopping carts full or groceries

Won’t let me and my three items and two children go first

Which I suppose is why folks reject a connection to apes and

Embrace the cross and the ark

Otherwise

How can you explain being pissed over having to wait ten minutes to buy milk

I can’t

But I don’t try

Which is why

An hour or two ago

Standing over my son on this

His first night in a big boy bed

I told him to stay in there until morning

Until someone could come up

And thought about recording this moment in some way

So that he could look back one day

And appreciate our history