Thursday, June 30, 2022

The challenge of volunteering


Nature has a way of tossing 
Beauty into unexpected places: 
My neighbor used to call these surprising gifts 
Volunteers. And — ideally — 
Isn’t that what volunteering’s like? 
So often an attempt to bring some light 
And/or beauty to dark places? 
How sad it is, when the light we bring 
Never seems to be enough, 
 Or gets extinguished, 
Or when others only add to the darkness…

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