Inside/Outside

It is often difficult, on the inside of any organization, to remember there is an outside as well.  Sometimes a change on the outside reflects a change on the inside.  Sometimes change goes from inside... out.  Still, on the inside, no matter the lighting, it is entirely possible to forget the outside... exists.

I sit inside under fluorescent light.

It is possible to forget

There is an outside

To this particular

Inside.

It is possible to forget

There is an upside

To this particular

Downside.

I hear the radio.

The cars pour by

On Roosevelt Road.

Glints in the cracks

Of the vertical blinds

 Remind me there is an outside

To this inside,

This place only certain people

Know

Exists.

Today the outside sign was changed

From

Financial Assistance Needed

To

Thank you for your contribution DMG

Today the outside changed

A little.

Today, here in the neon,

There are signs

The inside might perhaps

Be changing

As well.