It will matter to this one

Starfish Poem

As I walked along the seashore

This young boy greeted me.

He was tossing stranded starfish Back to the deep blue sea.

I said, 'Tell me why you bother,

Why you waste your time this way.

There's a million stranded starfishDoes it matter, anyway?'

And he said, 'It matters to this one.

It deserves a chance to grow.

It matters to this one.

I can't save them all I know.

But it matters to this one,I'll return it to the sea.

It matters to this one, And it matters to me.'

-- Anonymous