Abstraction

The girl looks out from the window of the airplane 20,000 feet up in the sky She picks a rooftop in the middle of the town and wonders what is happening inside The tv in the kitchen flashes faces The woman slowly pushes in the chairs Her neighbors son is fighting in the army She's concentrating to remember where Who can know the pain, the joy, the regret, the satisfaction Who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul at two you're at abstraction The man is waiting for the bus into the city He grabs a drink slowly reads the Times His heart is captured by a story of a child Around the world but always on his mind A million this, a million that A mass sum of individuals A million here, a million there Made up of a million souls