What am I?
never mind
I've no name
you do not see my face
a nobody of the human race
yet I breathe and move
invisible in every place
I have life
am never static
though to no abode
do I stick
I drift and I wander
in infinite space
I am change
constant flux
transformation
a crossover from yesterday
a moment in time's spectrum
a bridge to future's way
whether night or day
in silence you can feel me
in the smile of the child
the warmth of the mother
holding her tiny one
the kind stretching hand
reaching out to the destitute
the lonely, the desolate
the marginalised
the forgotten women and men
the stars and the moon
they keep me company
like all of you
sadness moves me
to tears-
mankind lives
in melancholy
at the deepest hour of night
when gentle breezes distil the air
you would find my whisper there
* after Walt Whitman and Emerson