The thing about being on here on earth
is that there are always openings
to peer into other lives,
backwards or forwards in time

Sometimes we stare in one direction
for far too long;
maybe we saw something terrible
and can't bring ourselves to look away

The world must have great faith in us,
it must feel that we are ready
to balance the great responsibility
of looking

In the end what we saw
may not be as important
as where we chose to look