On a Lack of Respect Paid to the Ceiling

All of you bummed out and in a deep funk.

Ornery, spiteful mopes

With your noses dragging the floor,

You’re not giving proper reverence and esteem

To the imperious, the ever-looming,

Rarely remembered and scrutinized

Overseer of all your goings-on.

 

There may be a green dragonfly just now

Consulting its dainty shadow,

The excited movement of leaves,

The mystery of light changing?

Or there may be nothing there to see.

Note, please, how quiet the world gets

When you roll your eyes back and look.