Sometimes
I live like the women in the front row
Full on, fearless, loving it
Sometimes
Like the women in the second row
At a distance from risk, safe
But mostly enjoying myself
Sometimes
Like the women in the third row
Going through the motions
Wrapped up in surviving
Joyless
I wonder
Is it possible to live every minute
In the first row
Or is a little third row needed
Here and there for comparison
Are there people
Who never experience
Life in the first row or the third
Life is a rollercoaster ride
The sum of it
Can be determined
By where we choose to sit
E.A. Fussell
11.23.2020
