Thirty Three Thousand Feet Robert Beatty

​Thirty three thousand Feet
 
 
People sleep, watch videos,
play games on screens and sip at wine.
We hurtle West over snow covered mountains.
A chasm opened, or perhaps just revealed itself
with a taxi goodbye kiss
That moment of looking away
one plane change ago
it's always the same.
Here, and then not here!
It's that simple.
Those moments that we actually have,
When we can touch, hear, see,
and smell one another other
are all we really have.
The stakes are high aren't they?
Either we connect and love one another now
or not at all.
 
Robert Beatty