Someone

At this moment…

Somewhere in the world:

Someone is dying,
Someone is being born.
Someone is being hired,
Someone is being fired.
Someone is being pleasured,
Someone is being tortured.
Someone is having the best sex of their life.
Someone is having the first sex of their life
(though rarely simultaneously, the two are not mutually inclusive).
Someone is laughing,
Someone is crying
(maybe at one and the same time).
Someone is walking on stage,
Someone is walking to the gallows.
Someone is trotting on the pitch,
Someone is rotting in jail.
Someone is being showered with flowers,
Someone is being commemorated by a graveside.
Someone is stuck in traffic,
Someone is stuck in a marriage.
Someone is orbiting the Earth,
Someone is circling the drain.
Someone’s birthday bash is bombastic.
Someone’s birthday is barely observed.
Someone is taking their life,
Someone is saving that of someone else
(at the cost of their own).
Someone is caught in the rain,
Someone is stalked in the dark.
Someone is fantasised,
Someone is forgotten.
Someone is chained,
Someone is released.
Someone is denied,
Someone is believed.
Someone is a hero,
Someone is a troll.
Someone is giving a speech,
Someone is taking the piss.
Someone is abused,
Someone is the abuser.
Someone is fiddling their expenses,
Someone is giving to charity what they can’t afford.
Someone is standing passive,
Someone is taking action
(someone else is filming it on their phone).
Someone is coming out,
Someone is staying in.
Someone enjoys solitude,
Someone is rarely alone.
Someone is single minded,
Someone can’t ignore the voices any longer.
Someone needs help,
Someone has time to spare.
Someone is under the thumb,
Someone is under the knife.
Someone goes unnoticed,
Someone is seen by the world
(no one will remember ether of them a century from now).
Someone is being remembered.
Someone is being dismembered.  
Someone is in drag,
Someone is in a rut.
Someone is at prayer,
Someone is on the job.
Someone is giving themselves for money
(don’t we all?),
Someone is buying someone else.
Someone is living for the moment,
Someone is trying to make it to the end of the week.

For everyone else it is an ordinary moment in an ordinary day of an ordinary life that passes without incident and concludes without fanfare.
Everyone is something.
No-one is everything.
The galaxy spins.
The universe expands.
The seasons change.
The sun sets as the Earth rotates
(whether or not anyone notices or understand the mechanics).
One moment is much the same as any other.
Someone reads this.
Someone understands.
Someone is bored with repetition.
Someone clings to routine.
Someone is done.
Time for someone else to speak now.

Pale Blue Dot