the rain in spain

One day I was walking up the many stairs we have around here on the way to class and saw water dripping off a ledge. I stopped and just watched it for awhile, observing how one drop when coming into contact with the ground dispersed into many drops catapulting themselves into a larger radius. I thought about how peoples efforts do the same thing. It takes one person to start something and then bam a number of other people take the idea and extend the radius of the effort. <3

one visceral shaped drop

desperately hanging onto the edge

gravity anxiously waiting to make it plummet towards the unforgiving pavement

so much potential contained in one little drop

the height so daunting

fear of he unknown keeps the drop holding tight

holding tight to what it knows

all the while imagining what could be

optimism begins to take control

slowly it peels the last five fingers of fear from the faithful ledge

with everything the drop has it starts its decent

closer and closer and closer to the ground

until......BAM......the surface is penetrated

one drops efforts suddenly splash into 1,000 directions