At This Moment

At this moment in time
There are moms giving birth,
While gravediggers shovel
A plot in the earth.

At this moment a plane
Is preparing to soar,
While a soldier’s blown up
In a far-away war.

At this moment some people
Confess all their sins,
While the gamblers assess
All their losses and wins.

There are folks who are sleeping
Or cooking or reading;
Shoplifters stealing
And knife victims bleeding.

Actors rehearsing and
Bar patrons drinking.
Cars crashing crazily;
Novelists thinking.

Knitters are knitting
And lovers embracing;
Criminals learn of
The sentence they’re facing.

Capture one moment
And measure the arc.
Everything happens –
The light and the dark.

Here in this moment
Some journey from home,
While I sit and ponder
And jot down this poem.