Just One Drop

I lie within the waters depths, drifting back and forth on tides and currents.  The ocean swells and rages as it contests with the sky.  I am drawn to the surface and get caught up in the tumultuous fray.  The winds die down and the sea calms.  The sun appears, bringing new order to the earth below.  I feel a warmth that reaches throughout my being, changing me from within.  I grow and expand, becoming lighter than I was before.  I am lifted up towards the heavens, freed from the surface of the water.

For a while I rise higher and higher until I start to feel the cold.  I draw myself in, reforming, gaining depth and substance.  As I am tossed about by currents of air, I grow.  At each turn I pick up something new, absorbing more into myself, becoming more.  Soon I have grown too much to remain forever suspended in the heavens.  I feel drawn back down towards the earth below.  Accompanied by many others like me, I return.

I land upon a mountain.  I am unable to penetrate or even mark the hard rocky ground.  Others have come before me leaving behind a part of themselves.  I follow their lead and move down the mountainside.  I am soon joined by my brothers and sisters. Together we pick up speed, together we are able to leave our mark on the landscape.  I pick up a lose particle of earth and leave behind a part of myself.

We join a stream of millions.  We are an unstoppable force, carving a path through solid rock.  Nothing can stand against us, rocks and trees are all carried in our wake.  As the ground levels out, we lose our momentum and begin to release our burdens.  As the river slows down I come to rest upon the riverbank.  It is time for me to let go of my particle and be absorbed into the earth.  The mountain is brought low by just one drop.