When I think of the vastness of the universe, I wonder at my own insignificance. We all ask the question, “Why am I here?” What Is my Purpose?” “Is there life after death?” Unanswerable questions run through our mind as we live our life. As a person of faith, I believe God is the creator who gives me purpose and a reason to live and serve others. This poem looks at, not only our insignificance in the greater scheme of things. but at the purpose for which we were created and exist.
Grain of Sand
Am I just a grain of sand
On the beach of the cosmos
Glinting now and then in the sunlight
As the waters of life wash over me
Am I just a grain of sand
Cemented together by heat and pressure
Metamorphic marble creating the beauty
Contrasting with all others around me
Am I just a grain of sand
Covering surrounding and preserving
Things to be uncovered in eons to come
Sedimentary fossils of the past perfectly saved
Am I just a grain of sand
Identity lost along with others
Melted and spewed out by volcanic forces
Life so intense all individuality gone
Ending in translucent crystal of beauty
Am I just a grain of sand
Crushed and pulverized in the milieu
Gathered wet and smooth on the potter’s wheel
Molded and shaped into a whole
Much greater than myself
Only to be fired transformed hardened
Into a useful creation
Made for a purpose
Defined and fixed
By the Potter’s hand
Only to be broken in time
And returned to dust
While my spirit
Lives on into eternity
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