Look Up

The world is bending with noses pointed to the ground like small rudders steering bodies on busy sidewalks. People see the sky only as a reflection on cell phone screens when texting friends. Who is left to notice light as it penetrates new leaves in a forest where one finds more beauty looking up? Vertebrae are fusing in a forward position causing discomfort and distortion on young people. Who will see the woodpecker feed her young, or the squirrel jump to another tree when no one is looking up? Those who worship the cell phone bend in permanent obesciance to this modern god. Generations of people ignore what lies above by never looking up.