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Traffic Jam Reverie

Getting impatient, I tapped my patient steering wheel
                             and drift into a daydream as I sit there
                                                   stranded,

                      tormented by the toxic fumes in a gnarled traffic
                                in the scorching noontime sun, so
                                                exasperated.

                    So here I'm now enjoying siesta in my own mind,
                             lying on a grass carpet in the soothing
                                                    shadow

                            of the thick canopy of a giant mahogany
                            by a creek of cold water, just where only
                                                     I know.

                  Over there I see densely forested mountainsides
                     teeming with fruits, flowers, honey, game and
                                             songs unsung;

                  up in the Ocean Sky, a pair of dark-brown falcons
                             soar toward a far-off cliff bringing food 
                                              to their young.

                  Awakened, I stare again at the chaos around me,
                         admitting with envy how lucky those birds 
                                                   can be;

            having all to themselves my grass, creek and mahogany,
            while I crawl like a worm to feed my young waiting home
                                                   for me.

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