Great Ones

Great Ones

There are many great ones on the earth

Not because they are known

Not because they are wealthy

Not because they are influential or powerful

But because they care

Because they love

Because they live life the way a human being lives life

Loving one another

Loving those that cross their paths

Whether that be another person, an animal, or a tree in the forest

These people are the ones that quietly move about

Changing the earth one moment at a time

They are never applauded

They are never written about

Most may be never noticed

But they are seen and known

They are honored and praised

By the lives of all, by the land

Let’s give these folks a hand….

2/23/19

Memorials

Memorials

Even those things we set into stone

Will one day pass, will one day groan

As the wind lifts off the dust and sand

The rain will take them by the hand

And cast them into the wells of time

So they may be dissolved into unknown, unrhymed

Nutrient for a future and a promise and hope

The bucket is lowered, extended the rope

What is raised up is only what has been lowered

Standing upright, unafraid, uncowered

Yet full of the essence, full of unknown

What is harvested now is what has been sown

But no one remembers where it came from…

K, Duane Carter 2-28-11