Abstraction

The girl looks out from the window of the airplane

20,000 feet up in the sky

She picks a rooftop in the middle of the town

And wonders what is happening inside

The tv in the kitchen flashes faces

The woman slowly pushes in the chairs

Her neighbors son is fighting in the army

She's concentrating to remember where

Who can know the pain the joy the regret the satisfaction/passion

Who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul

At two you're at abstraction

The man is waiting for the bus into the city

He's grabs a drink slowly reads the Times

His heart is captured by a story of a child

Around the world/ miles away but always on his mind

A million this a million that

A mass sum of individuals

A million come/here a million go/there

Made up of a million souls