What Isn’t It Telling You?

Stop reading, watching,
Listening, stop paying
Attention to others, stop
Trying to get hints
From people about people.
If you were a person
Alone to the horizon,
You’d be the representative
Of all of them. Enough.
Pay attention instead
To the bare spot on the sidewalk
Just past the door ajar,
A bit of construction
Left behind, now void
Of humans but busy
With sunlight and occasional
Lizards and ants.