Finally, the hospital is behind you.
Don’t look back, even though
being turned into a pillar of salt
isn’t the worst thing that can befall
any one of us. Ahead of you now
sporadic traffic heading to the city center,
at a crosswalk a young woman
is eating an ice cream sandwich
and a boy stands on his skateboard
that is almost larger than he is.
Everything is as it was, waiting for
your return, how could you have known
that the world missed you in its own way?