Missing the Story

When I move too fast

I miss the story

that travels all around me

on the wind and in the clouds

When I move too fast

I miss the story

that nests in the trees

flies high in the sky

When I move too fast

I miss the story

of a shirt draped on a walker

holding a back pack stuffed full.

When I move too fast

I miss the story

of a man in a wheelchair

working on his cell phone.

When I move too fast

I miss the stories

that swirl all around me

in the streets, on the wind and in the clouds.

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, 

stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

~ Philip Pullman