I Looked, and You Looked Away

I looked, and you looked away. I exult at every sunrise, you cower and hide. I revel in the cold rain's touch, you beg for it to cease. I marvel at a deer satiating a lion, you flinch in disgust. I watch a cockroach lift its ancient wings - survivor of extinctions, heir to atoms, and feel the same awe I gift the butterfly. I sit with grief and let it speak, you bolt the door and call it strength, I rejoice at the chance to have made all that memory. You kneel before a judgment that never comes.