I have this little balcony...

I have this little balcony

On the second floor of my house

My big white house

With gold fixtures

In this town in sunny so cal

80 degrees in the winter 

10 minutes walk to the beach 

And 5 minutes drive to my tiny private school

Where girls wear tube tops all year round

And guys only own one pair of jeans and one pair of sweats amongst the 20 pairs of shorts and 20 designer hoodies

They don’t need anything more

Because I live in southern California

Where seeing a parakeet in the trees is less common than seeing a lady with a nose job or lip filler or botox on the street

I have this little balcony

With this big sliding door overlooking the ocean

The sunsets

The warm breeze

It's nice

But maybe I live in this bubble

The ones that never pop

So each time I look out my window

The big one overlooking the ocean

I see the things that I know as normal 

While some people die of hunger a couple thousand miles away

And yet some people ask why I always close my curtains