One Single Impression: One Word
Simply Hi
By Edward S. Gault
The minister finished
With the customary ashes to ashes.
His family and two friends gathered around
The coffin, as it was lowered into the ground.
His friends remembered how dejected
He was the last time they had seen him.
They remembered the intercom announcement
By the principal that he had died.
And how he died.
Oh God, how he died!
And alone.
Most were asking who he was.
They didn’t even know him.
Now, as dirt was being shoveled in,
The two that did, wondered why,
Maybe- just once!-more people
Couldn’t have said just one word to him
Simply, Hi.
Walking along path,
Burdened with troubles-He came!
-spoke just one word, Peace.
Copyright©2009
11 comments:
Hi Edward. This is most appropriate. Thought provoking indeed.
Very profound
Sometimes a person aches for just one caring word.
...many times they are too few and far in between to a lonely person.
I enjoyed this poem.
How easy it can be to forget all the kindnesses we have in our power to give.
An important message about community - and finished off with a flourish.
Oh this is so sad but so true too. Well done Edward. This hits close to home for me...
your words remind me of how i need to be...to see everyone as someone
I think we all crave that one word that carries kindness and a sense of connection.
Excellent piece on a sad part of today's hurried 'me' life.
the simplest kindness can tip the world on its axis. you never know. Hi. I see you.
powerful story.
The axis of the world on a single word.
Very strong.
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