Screenshot (Destiny)

consider all of the people
currently in coffee shops
staring at white screens
waiting for their browsers to engage

as if those screens were horizons
concealed by fog
that will soon blow away
revealing adventures and destiny

ever notice how few of the people
staring at screens in coffee shops
ever look like they’ve found
their destiny

right now I am staring at a coffee shop
full of such seekers
and filling a white screen 
with my thoughts about them

I know I am thus
fulfilling my destiny though
I suspect I do not appear ecstatic
to anyone watching me

everyone quick — stare at others 
staring at others
try to discern their happiness
judge them if you don’t see it

and thus fulfill
at least a piece of your destiny
by assuming your perceptions
are an absolute truth