A lapse in my attention causes my gaze to shift from the screen to the skies across my workspace,
The downpour from the morning has reduced to a drizzle; light and steady,
I fix my stare at the raindrops that form a coded pattern of zeros and ones on the windows with a blue glaze,
Until I have an epiphany.
I grab my laptop and make a run for it with a spring in my step and twinkle in my eye,
Minutes later I’m perched up on the bar stool by the window at the coffee parlor,
With a glass of kaapi in my hand and a song on my phone my head is suddenly clear,
I look out once again only this time I know why…
I spot the grass blades on the freshly mowed lawns being pecked at by cranes,
I realise what I believed to be mere specks and dots were actual people,
I count the cars drive in to the porchway to be filled by those hopeful,
I find the usual hustle and bustle in the campus washed away by the rains.
I notice, I observe, I learn.
I pause, I breathe, I live.
With a promise to return, I jump off the stool and make my way to my desk,
content with myself for having taken a break that I feared was a risk!
C.A.: Confused Aquarian 