Lady in the Window

High up there
About halfway up the building
You can see her in the window
She sits there for hours
Searching the faces, the people in the street below
Wondering
Does anybody care?
Moving with purpose in their oblivious way
Making their appointments happily on time
Clocking the minutes of a prosperous day
Does anybody care?
In her sad eyes
She knows the secret
The terrible truth we hide in our lies
We are
All of us
Alone.
Does anybody care?

Lawrence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been or will be published in "Kimera," "The Penwood Review," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions," "Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire," "Uprising," "Office Number One," "Superior Poetry News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children, Churches and Daddies," "The Gentle Survivalist," "Short North Gazette," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges," "Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings," "L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Some Words," "Shadyvale Magazine," "Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire," "Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "Barbaric Yawp," "Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion," "Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light," "Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Psychopetica" and others.

Email: Lawrence Overmire

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