eating a bed of leaves is peaceful
like mowing the lawn on a deserted island
under a light rain that cools
everything down just right
keeping to yourself when you think about birds
the way they fly and then the sky at night
what it would be like to die

being scared of the unknown is just
a phobia of rotary telephones
before caller id nobody knew
who the messenger was
or what they might say
but they picked up anyway and
that's what we're all going to do