I can see you with

a painted-on smile

and man on your arm

who doesn't know the

first important thing about you.

 

I will not see it happen,

or else,

I will shield my eyes,

for fear of losing respect 

and admiration for the near

and the dear.

 

 

Nothing near stays so

for long after the fact

and that's life:

a constant shuffle of people

getting closer and further

and sometimes itr lasts longer

than others, 

but we're all orbitting somewhere,

satellites with our own gravity

alkways pulling and being pulled.

 

Some gravity is stronger than others

and some are gentle as the spring breeze

while others will collapse your lungs and skull.

 

Some orbits are bad business,

and that is what I never want to see

for you

but a prophet is not required.

 

Gravity rides everything,

and sometimes

we all do too.