“One grain of sand, one task at a time”
My father often reminded me,
Directing at his hourglass
.
“Dad it’s a massive, complex project,
How would it ever see daylight?”
With innocence aglow, I would quetch with teary eyes
.
“Don’t worry honey, let’s start with baby steps,” he would suggest
“Give it heartily, the time it deserves,”
“It’s the little things that combine to be immense,”
.
As I grew up, I tucked onto his lessons
Hassled I would be, with multitude of life
But I would calm myself with one task at a time
.
As the pace of life outweighed on me
“Baby steps” I would remind myself
And back on track, I’d soon find myself
.
Smilingly, I would observe his hourglass,
How patiently it handled the pile of sand
Filtering slowly one by one,
.
Just one grain of sand
Just one grain at a time!
.
©Vandana Bhasin
03.04.2021
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