How Many?

How many petals in a peony or blades of grass that come together to make a beautiful difference in the world? How many trees constitute a forest?

How many drops of water make a stream, a lake or an ocean? How many drops of water so that they create a glistening on the leaves of a peony or on blades of grass?

Sometimes it takes hundreds or thousands of something or  people to make a difference. A concert has less energy with only a few people. A movement to make a change often needs lots of people to make that change. 




But sometimes it takes just one? Someone to smile, to ask if you are okay. Sometimes it's a phone call to a friend when you're feeling a bit blue so that you have someone to laugh with. Sometimes all it takes is one person to be a witness or to agree to act. 

This post was inspired by a recent poem that came to me. I read it to my sister, and she said that I should submit it for publication somewhere. I've decided to publish it here. 

How Many? 

How many did
Gabriel visit
and ask before 
Mary? How many ran
from the room,
fainted dead away
before Gabriel found Mary,
willing to stand upright,
to say yes?

©2017 Kathryn L. Samuelson

I believe that sometimes it takes someone asking over and over again. Without giving up.