“Nothing else matters,” he began,
and looked around the room.
Clearing his throat, he paused,
but not to draw our attention,
which he already had.
“Nothing else matters at all,”
and his bright eyes beamed,
his smile fanfare
for the lyrical explanation
we awaited.
“Oh, if anything else mattered,
I would surely tell you,” he said,
and with a deep bow
left the podium.
George H Northrup is a psychologist and poet in New Hyde Park, NY. He is a former President of the New York State Psychological Association and author of a chapbook of nature poems entitled, You Might Fall In, published in 2014 by Local Gems Press.
