Another day,
another meeting,
more ballyhoo and hullabaloo,
fuss and flapdoodle,
bobbery, bother and blather,
more hoo-ha and foofaraw,
alarums and excursions,
coil and kerfuffle,
Sturm und Drang,
whelter and whirl…

And then it ends.
I sit in silence,
look out at the snow
    gently falling on the city,
breathe deeply
and return to the reality
of stillness.

We so easily slip
off center.

Text and image © 2015 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.