2014-2015, Poem

Perspective

Featured in the 2015 Spring Issue of Rambunctious

Perspective
Liam Sherwood, '17

i am nothing,
a mere speck of sand
in a desert,
a blade of grass
in a field.

you are nothing,
a strand of hair 
on a head,
a crumb
at the bottom of a bag.

we are nothing,
pebbles
in a quarry,
single stars
in a universe.

i, you, we… are nothing.