🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Two Raindrops

Two Raindrops

Joseph Morris

  Two little raindrops were born in a shower,
  And one was so pompously proud of his power,
  He got in his head an extravagant notion
  He’d hustle right off and swallow the ocean.
  A blade of grass that grew by the brook
  Called for a drink, but no notice he took
  Of such trifling things. He must hurry to be
  Not a mere raindrop, but the whole sea.
  A stranded ship needed water to float,
  But he could not bother to help a boat.
  He leaped in the sea with a puff and a blare—
  And nobody even knew he was there!

  But the other drop as along it went
  Found the work to do for which it was sent:
  It refreshed the lily that drooped its head,
  And bathed the grass that was almost dead.
  It got under the ships and helped them along,
  And all the while sang a cheerful song.
  It worked every step of the way it went,
  Bringing joy to others, to itself content.
  At last it came to its journey’s end,
  And welcomed the sea as an old-time friend.
  “An ocean,” it said, “there could not be
  Except for the millions of drops like me.”