It can be like a liferaft,
thrown out along the way,
letting others know
they are not alone.

Like the butterfly effect.

The idea that a butterfly’s
flapping wings
can create tiny changes
in our dynamic system,
which then causes
a chain of events
leading to a much larger phenomena,
is real.

Had the butterfly not flapped its wings,
the trajectory of the system
might have been vastly different.

What may appear
to be the small everyday choices,
are the ones,
that can be earth and life-changing.

And no matter …
what anyone says about you.

It is not,
who you might have been,
before and “then”.

It is what you do
with what you have now gleened.

It is who you have Become,
in remembering.