Don’t live life as a spectator.
                        -Felix Baumgartner 

Earth spins on its axis once a day
at nearly 1,000 miles per hour.

One day this week I was playing pinball
another day was Singo at the bar
and today I checked out the Farmer’s Market.
In every place I went, there were people,
couples, families,
but there wasn’t a person.

Earth orbits the Sun every year
at roughly 67,000 miles per hour.

Friends I haven’t seen since last year
when they visited after moving away the year before
texted last night to say they were thinking of me.
One of them is engaged now
and I truly am super happy for them
while I sit underneath the pine tree
outside the same studio apartment
I’ve lived in for a decade.

Earth and the Sun
along with the whole Solar System
themselves revolve around the Milky Way
at about 514,000 miles per hour.
A full orbit takes almost 250 million years.

I can be fully entertained watching a game of sports 
because I don’t need to play.
That’s someone else’s dream.
Someone else can jump out of a plane,
someone else can ski the double black diamond
or act in plays or movies
or open their own business.
Maybe you feel the same way.

But there are
dreams
futures we envision for ourselves
lackings
desires unfulfilled
hope blown further along
like leaves in unceasing wind
even as we proclaim to enjoy the weather.

Is there any faith that our own ways can be found?

When all the math of motions is done
our Earth hurtles through space 
at a blistering 
1.3 million miles per hour.

There’s something I think I lost
several million miles back
but I’m afraid if I try to reach for it,
I’ll fall right off the planet.