For the woman looking out the window at Dunkin Donuts

For the woman looking out the window at Dunkin Donuts

Have you kept all your promises

you made to yourself,

quietly,

with no one around?

Have you dreamed big

past the window pane

hazy?

Have you loved enough 

of the faces strolling

past you?

     The shirtless man with his cart of cans?

     The teenage boy with aviator glass

going nowhere fast?

     The woman walking two feet in front of her boyfriend?

There's time yet.

July 17th, 2009