A poem to make you think

I stumbled across this beauty of a poem today. I found it completely arresting. At first it felt sad, but then I remembered that it’s sometimes these tiny glimpses that prompt action to change something… or gratitude for what the settling has given us.

The Price by Stuart Henson

Sometimes it catches when the fumes rise up

among the throbbing lights of cars, or as

you look away to dodge eye-contact with

your own reflection in the carriage-glass;

or in a waiting-room a face reminds you

that the ...