High up there <br />About halfway up the building <br />You can see her in the window <br />She sits there for hours <br />Searching the faces, the people in the street below <br />Wondering <br /> <br />Does anybody care? <br /> <br />Moving with purpose in their oblivious way <br />Making their appointments happily on time <br />Clocking the minutes of a prosperous day <br /> <br />Does anybody care? <br /> <br />In her sad eyes <br />She knows the secret <br />The terrible truth we hide in our lies <br />We are <br />All of us <br />Alone. <br /> <br />Does anybody care? <br /> <br /> <br />(Previously published in Ascent Magazine, Winter 2000)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lady-in-the-window/
