Being with people animates me.
Fills me with energy.
The kind you get from chocolate or coffee.
So, it surprised me that I wanted stillness.
When gleeful children called their parents.
Asked to go here or there.
In the park.
I only wanted to hear weeping beeches sob.
Fountains cry.
Finches wail.
Frogs bellow.
Woodpeckers drum Taps.
After all, it is Memorial Day.
Lynn Benjamin
May 29, 2023
