Counting……….

Have you ever counted as snow flakes fall?

Or the people with shopping bags in a mall?

Or tried to label the innumerable stars?

While counting out the prison bars?

Have you ever counted the blades of grass?

Or how many pennies a coin collector has?

Or tried to count the falling rain?

While counting out the field’s grains?

Have you ever counted the threads in your jeans?

Or a jar that is overflowing, full of beans?

Or tried to label the amount of phone number combinations?

While counting out the African nations?

Have you ever counted until your voice ran dry?

Or the amount of birds that flew in the sky?

Or tried to count the shades of blue?

While counting out the drops in a bottle of glue?

Have you ever counted the number of ‘whys’?

Or the amount of fruit in one thousand pies?

Or tried to count the hairs on a cat?

While counting out the places you’ve sat?

Have you ever counted the number of books?

Or the number of times you took a second look?

Or tried to count holes in Swiss chess?

While counting out the times you said ‘please’?

Have you ever counted the number of times you made a list?

Or the number of times you made a fist?

Or tried to count the drops of dew?

While counting out the times you said ‘I love you’?

Life is full of numbers, and full of things to count,

It’s strange and funny, to watch as things amount

Then suddenly all the counting ends,

And you finally comprehend.

The numbers in life just take up space,

But can be gone without a trace.