Today’s news wasn’t about you By Samuel John Duffy

Jan 15
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Today’s news wasn’t about you

I just read about a rockslide in Banff; one dead

You haven’t lived there in a decade and my thoughts still ran to you

You live a hundred kilometers away in suburbia

It’s a workday

but the chances aren’t zero

It’s not impossible that you returned home,

greeted your family, and embarked on a familiar hiking path,

and the universe’s luck hasn’t favored you,

and with it my enthusiasm for us has been punished

I won’t know for certain until I see you again

I just notice that my world now has you in mind

Samuel John Duffy is a writer, currently based in Calgary, AB.

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