Water

The water's keys

are persistence

and community.

A single drop,

once pounded onto a rock,

no matter how hard it falls,

makes no visible difference.

Gallon after gallon,

year after year,

however, cuts a canyon

deep and wide, more grand

than any hammer ever has.

Take your cue from the river:

be soft, be steady,

and stick together.

Love flows not

from the anxious or the angry,

but flows long and passionately

for those who fall together

instead of apart;

those whose gentleness

knows no end.

© 2016 Todd Jenkins