A grain of white sand

You lie there, silent and unmoving. There is activity all around you, and you wish so badly that you could join in the fun too.

But yet you lie there, quiet and still.

What would it take, you scream, to get a little attention? Even if for just a fraction of a second, could you not look at me, though small I may be? What should I do, you ask, to make you see me?

You feel unimportant.

Worse still, you feel useless.

You feel small and insignificant.

You feel like you could disappear, and no one would know any better.

You are nothing.

*

You have lost your voice. But no one has answered your pleas.

Now you ask yourself, Am I nothing?

Rubber band

You think you’ve been stretched to the maximum. You feel like if you were pulled somemore, you’d lose all your elasticity. You know you would break with just one more fraction of a movement.

Then life throws at you yet another challenge.

And you still don’t break.