It amazes me how the world keeps spinning
and never misses a beat,
how flawlessly it works without anyone knowing
it’s spinning day and night,
as if it had automatically greased gears
that it spins upon anonymously.
It amazes me more that people and life
go on oblivious to the spinning,
as if the world was never spinning and
always stationary in the same place.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen
if the world got tired and stopped spinning
and if that would ever be a real
and disastrous possibility.
Bob Boyd