Meltdown

Is every grain of sand Different from the other? I do not know. Is every drop of water Different from the other? I do not know. But I do know That every snowflake Is different from the other Just as every man differs from the other.

How like snowflakes are we! Both appear from nowhere But from somewhere the same Falling, falling we come down Lying on a rock or in a glacier Or on the riverbank here Clinging on to a blade of grass Or like this one, on my beard.

Clinging on, clutching to For a brief while And then melting away into nothingness.