Just Around the Corner

Just around the corner 

there is always something 

that wasn’t there yesterday. 

Maybe just a black shiny pebble 

tossed from a child’s hand, 

  maybe a new fence erected 

    maybe tiny weeds growing,

flowering amid drying grasses. 

Noticing these tiny changes 

in a world gone mad 

shows me that 

   the black shiny pebble, 

      the new fence, 

        the tiny flowering weeds 

know nothing of the state of our planet. 

They have no ears to hear the chaos, 

   nor eyes to watch out for a new face in the news. 

But they are always just around the corner.

“There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. 

It is the idea of something around the corner,”

Gilbert K. Chesterton, writer

(1874 ~ 1936)