Enough
If
you feed a few crumbs to one bird
It is enough. If you
feed
A can of cat food to
one cat
It
is enough. If you feed
A
family with your leftovers
It
is enough. If you feed
A
room full of refugees
With
collected canned goods
It
is enough.
So
many grievances,
So
much injustice.
It’s
like too many holes at once
Opening
in the ceiling.
You
run all over the place,
Trying
to plug the leak.
You
don’t have enough fingers.
But
if you give someone on the street a quarter
It
is enough.
If
you make that phone call to a representative
It
is enough.
If
you write one editorial or poem
It
is enough.
If
you march and shout
It
is enough.
If
you live your life no matter what
And
be true to yourself
It
is enough.
Don’t
let anyone tell you
You
are not doing enough.
You
alone will not be able to build the ark.
But
your hammer will drive in one necessary nail.
It
will be enough
If
there are enough of you
To
wield all the hammers.
© 2017 Lynne Bronstein
Lynne Bronstein came to LA in the era of album rock and wrote for the underground Los Angeles Free Press. For five decades she’s supported herself as a journalist while contributing to the literary community with four books, poems and short stories in numerous magazines, readings, and organizing poetry events. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net Awards and her short story “Why Me?” won a prize in the poeticdiversity Short Fiction Contest. She has poetry forthcoming in Lummox, Chiron Review, poeticdiversity, and Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, among others.
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