Woke up this morning with a goal that before I got up and out of bed I would have a concept with which to write around. I’m not sure where it came from, but within a few minutes I thought of a million grains of sand…and how a million grains seems like a lot, but how the distance they span is probably not that far. That thought then jumped to how some of life’s issues explode into seemingly huge events, only to find we’ve made mountains out of molehills. It may have put a million grains of sand between us, but only a hundred steps to make up the ground.
A Million Grains Of Sand
5.5.2018
A million grains of sand between us
Walking down the beach
But it only took one argument
To put you out of reach
Now grains are tiny
Grains are fine
Grains are plenty
Please give me time
To soak it in
To change my mind
I know you are right
But for the tide to recede
It’s gonna take some time
It’s gonna take some time
Half a million grains of sand
Between us
Another half behind
Still walking down the beach
Took just a handful of minutes
To see that a million grains
Of sand between us
Is a million grains too much
But grains are tiny
Grains are fine
Grains are plenty
But won’t take too much time
Only sands through the hourglass
For me to see
How I was blind
Recognize my slight
Tides have ebbed
But will you receive
Accept apology
Forgive
It’s gonna take time
It’s gonna take time
A million grains of sand between us
Made up on the beach
But not enough
Through the hourglass
Fill the gap left by
The argument
That put you out of reach
Now grains are tiny
Grains are fine
Grains are plenty
I owe you more than time
How many grains
Through the hourglass
Between your heart and mine
A million grains of sand
We’ve walked
Back across the beach
It took one morning
And lesson learned
To put your hand
Back into reach
Now grains are tiny
Grains are fine
Grains are plenty
Please give me time
To earn and prove
Still worthy of
A walk
Your hand in mine
Only sands through the hourglass
Between us now
Time to figure
What we’re about
No hurry
I’ll flip the hourglass
Should sands of time run out
You’re worth the wait
We’re worth the time
‘Til then we walk
Your hand in mine
Over another million grains of sand
Another million grains of time
On a million grains of sand
A million grains of sand