The Sticky List

The sticky note on cart

Bagels, English muffins

Butter, eggs, & rice

This list now forgotten

Left behind in the rush

a reminder for another

Perched on handle push

Reminds me here now—

Of the other, before me

Riding their day’s current

To tend to their needs

Or a needs of another

Bagels, English muffins

Butter, eggs, rice

A simple list left behind

Or forgotten by now

In the weekend rush

How simple or complex?

my list, next to strangers?

What hurries & worries

Put down or picked up?

Bagels, English muffins

Butter, eggs, rice

Something from nothing

In & out from the store

A revelation in my heart

In the persons before

Tending to the need to feed

All carrying the same list

Same simple yet sticky list

No matter our religion or race

No matter our wealth or rage of war

No matter our age or state of grace

No matter our country or encore

We all carry the same sticky list

In this beautiful world of uncertainty—

To nourish

Our bodies,

Our minds,

Our hearts

Our souls

A list we keep forever

Never checked off as completed

Perhaps misplaced

Or at times line items change

Perhaps forgotten

Or details differ or rearrange

Bagels, English muffins

Butter, eggs, rice

Yet always the same,

To nourish our lives & our loves

A list we all carry, simplify, rename

A sticky list to keep forever