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Airplane Window
May 22, 2016
The lights of the city
gleamed
below us like stars
as if
the world had been flipped
and the sky was now
the ground
Lakes were black holes
Buildings
and streets
and cars
and all the tiny people
blurring into one huge
nebula
Last week
I told my mom
"the world would be a better place
if we all looked up at the stars
more often"
But maybe sometimes
we should take a moment
to look
down
at them too
© Jordan L., Wichita, KS
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I was on an airplane on the way home from winter vacation when I looked out the window and realized how different my perspective was from so high up, late at night. I think a change in perspective can always be beneficial, so that's why I wrote this poem.