It wasn_t courage

IT WASN’T COURAGE

It wasn’t courage

or strength

you needed

to plant that sapling..

just heart

and a touch of caring.

You wondered

if the hole

was deep enough

and who would water it

when the rains were gone.

It would grow

and years hence

you would walk by

in its shade

and remember.

Someone destroyed it

in the night.

The sapling died,

and a dream with it.

But

the gentle earth

will remember

that you

were one of the few

that cared….

( 4/12/89)