I’m sure I’ve shared this poem at some point before but it was on my mind today so I had to share it again. When I’ve had a long day and I’m tired and find myself still awake and still needing to write a daily blog and it’s already 3am in the morning and I have meetings in just a few hours and I realize I’m gonna get almost no sleep before I have to be awake to do start all over again, I start asking myself why I’m doing this….and then I remember this poem:<\/p>\n
(by Will Allen Dromgoole)<\/p>\n
An old man, going a lone highway, Came at the evening cold and gray
\nTo a chasm vast and deep and wide
\nThrough which was flowing a swollen tide.
\nThe old man crossed in the twilight dim;
\nThe rapids held no fears for him.
\nBut he turned when safe on the other side
\nAnd built a bridge to span the tide.<\/p>\n
\u201cOld man,\u201d cried a fellow pilgrim near,
\n\u201cYou\u2019re wasting your time in building here.
\nYour journey will end with the closing day;
\nYou never again will pass this way.
\nYou have crossed the chasm deep and wide;
\nWhy build you this bridge at even-tide?\u201d<\/p>\n
The builder lifted his old gray head.
\n\u201cGood friend, in the path I have come,\u201d he said,
\n\u201cThere follows after me today
\nA youth whose feet must pass this way.
\nThis stream, which has been as naught to me,
\nTo that fair youth may a pitfall be.
\nHe too must cross in the twilight dim \u2014
\nGood friend, I am building this bridge for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
…and it reminds me that I’m building the bridge for those whose feet may someday pass this way… and that reminds me that its worth it.<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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