So

So?

by Leonard Nathan

So you aren’t Tolstoy or St. Francis
or even a well-known singer
of popular songs and will never read Greek
or speak French fluently
will never see something no one else
has seen before through a lens
or with the naked eye.

You’ve been given just the one life
in this world that matters
and upon which every other life
somehow depends as long as you live,
and also given the costly gifts of hunger,
choice, and pain with which to raise
a modest shrine to meaning.

I originally read this posted by Parker Palmer on Facebook, but here's the poem on someone else's blog with a heart opening story.  
http://katharineweinmann.com/2015/03/22/heart-balm/