Billions of billions with billions more; these past millions of years of life

A dinosaur once so tall and powerful, now forever strong outlined fossil of stone

Tree’s noble and forever petrified never again to feed a flame

Uncounted mountains that rose and fell

so much, so much indeed, beyond counting in numbers using 1-2-3…

 

It is easy to take in the whole, the big picture, this world called, home.

Yet

so very easy to forget and remember the smallest of things, the smallest of numbers.

 

Lost in ourselves, we with our pride and thoughts

Billions of us, these creatures called, human

yet again

so very easy to forget and remember the smallest of things, the smallest of numbers.

 

Talk again, as there is always talk.

Talk of abortion, of rights, of

I, me, we.

Talk of laws, of emotions, feelings; pictures huge and grand…

so very easy to forget and remember the smallest of things, the smallest of numbers.

 

The planet you call home, this ball of soil and water you call, Earth

filled with billions and billions and billions of so many forms of life

it is indeed, special

even more so when blessed with the ability to know

and yet again,

so very easy to forget, to forget what we are, what we all are…

the smallest of things, the smallest of numbers…

we all possess the fetal heartbeat, we all are special

as all life is truly special

from the smallest insect to the largest tree

and to truly make it special

is to simply take the time to remember

the smallest of things, the smallest of numbers

and give thanks.