The night is still and quiet all around me.
But life is happening.
Somewhere someone is holding the one they love.
Somewhere someone is crying for the one they lost.
A young couple is making love for the first time.
An old couple sits on their porch remembering the first time.
A child is being born.
A mother is weeping from the death of a child.
A marriage proposal is being accepted.
A marriage of twenty-five years is falling apart.
People are laughing and living their dreams.
Others are crying and living in fear.
But, the night is still and quiet all around me.

09/05/2003