June  1,  2021

  A  THOUSAND CHAIRS 

 
I’ve sat in a thousand different chairs,
hard soft, wood and plastic –
where I sat and listened,
where I sat and talked,
where I ate and laughed.
 
I’ve sat in a thousand different chairs,
where I chewed on the thoughts
of a thousand others – people
whom I sat with in this life
as we put our thoughts together.
 
I’ve sat in a thousand different chairs,
where I dealt with so many different questions,
questions I didn’t know I had, questions
that erased my previous answers, and gave me
new ones like, “Why don’t they bury us sitting down?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021