He lay there.
Just there,
Staring at the morning sky.
The sun hidden from his face,
The air breathing across his nose,
The whispers from a busy street kissing his open lips.
His eyes, closed.
He lay there,
With his back to the earth,
His face hidden from the world,
The stench of the busy streets teasing his nostrils,
The noisy footsteps trampling over his lips.
His eyes, still, closed.
He was a ‘lonesome’ man,
They would think,
A ‘thinker’, they would guess.
“A mysterious man” he must have been,
“With his long hair and thick grey beard”.
But no,
No one looked,
No one would.
The blind whisperings of their thoughts,
Confined to only roam these streets,
Could not find their way to him.
He must have been that suspicious type,
Not to be told of, and not spoken with…
Hiding behind his thick beard and long grey hair.
“No, a ‘people’s man’ he once said,
A ‘speaker’ he once thought” –
A mysterious other could say of him.
But no,
No one spoke,
No one would.
Their noisy footsteps so deafening,
Were left to only roam these streets,
To only trample, so harsh and so cruel.
While the mysterious other,
Now with quite possibly short hair and a clean shave,
Lay quiet in hiding.
He was one who knew too much perhaps?
But no shots were heard, no one would hear.
A government agent, killed on duty.
But no stabs on his back? No one would see.
A cast-away, A polymath, A millionaire, A sociopath –
Who would know?
No, who could know?
Behind that thick beard and long hair,
He quite possibly was an astronaut,
Intoxicated by the stench in the air.
Or perhaps a revolutionary,
Not to be told of, and not spoken with.
But no, quite possibly not –
His lips are open.
He lied there last night,
To stare at the night sky,
And the stars looked down on his face.
The garbage lined up,
Oblivious of his presence,
And waited for their morning pick-up.
While the quiet streets listened…
Listened, as they only then could,
Till his final breath.
The one that whispered softly,
and kindly,
To a comfortably deserted world.
He could have been the greatest man,
His lips left an open smile.
If only they listened,
If only they’d look.
Then perhaps yes,
He would look quite possibly like the greatest man.
Now, there he lay,
Under the morning sky.
The sun hiding from his face,
The garbage still in wait…
Its noise harsh,
and cruel.
The busy streets, still ignorant of his existence,
Looked to be the greatest man –
A secret agent, a millionaire, an intellectual, an astronaut…
Its stench intoxicating.
They never listened, they never cared.
And now his lips are a quiet smile.
They never looked, they could never have.
And now,
His eyes are closed.
pic. : Shadow-lines (from prophecyblur.com)