-for those of us who move on from those who suffer-

we move on from those who suffer.

we move on to the dinner tables,

to our healthy, annoying children.

we move to the MacBooks,

and newspapers for the information

we need to process the event of suffering.

those who currently suffer have

all the information they need.

we move to the ballgame on television.

we move to our daily preferences

and our daily occupations.

their suffering is not the way of things

for those not currently suffering

until the time of suffering comes

to lay its pall of grief upon us.

then our suffering, too, will be slower-paced,

lingering heavily often over lifetimes.

but today belongs to the current suffering.

for the rest of us, we have our lives to attend to,

and I think that’s fair;

I think that’s a reasonable measurement,––

the distance we apply between

those not currently suffering, and those who currently suffer.