Worldly Encounters

by Virginia Tyler (Ginny Raymond's mother)

Our encounters change the world:

The words we say; the glances we give;

The advice, if taken or ignored,

Change the space in which we live.

A rock thrown int a lake so calm

Disturbs the surface, and even more.

The waves grow wide, both down and out,

And change the near and opposite shore.

And so our lives filled with encounters -

Chance and otherwise -

Bump and shatter, soothe and flatter,

Until our encounters have changed the world.