Small Matter

You are
A speck of dust
Ash fading in windstorm

Neither here nor there
Disappear without notice

Nobody wishes you
Gone
Or wishes you at all

An atom
A nucleus filled to its brim
A universe encased in a shell

Inside
You are endless
Out here
The irrelevance of small things


Small matter
Invisible
Unimportant
Disposable
Expendable
Who cares?


I do.


 I am the mother that waits
The hands that wring
The scream that falls into the black hole
Of small matter


 Somewhere
You matter




 Not here.