Things that we see every day <br />Must live in a finite world, confined to the aisles <br />And the avenues, of our attention. <br /> <br />If you always take the same exact path <br />To go somewhere, each day <br />You can become oblivious, to what ought to be obvious. <br /> <br />We crave exciting things, of a dark and hidden nature; <br />The esoteric, inappropriate things of existence, <br />Believing the mundane beneath our interested notice. <br /> <br />Yet, if we could occasionally open our eyes <br />A bit earlier; or perhaps look out through only a tiny hole <br />Poked through our normal wide field of vision, we could be astonished <br /> <br />That all the miraculous things we thought banished <br />To the exotic districts where we can never go, <br />We have barely avoided stumbling over, every time we go out.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/things-that-we-see-every-day/
