Please, Please Poem by Mark Heathcote

Let some small degree of happiness enter your life
let it rooted be like a willow tree, tapping its water
let it sway in the wind and speak of your delights
let it sop up the moonlight, its sunlight quota.
Please, please don't forget to show you've got empathy.
Lest we're left, all thinking you've no sincerity.
Please, please don't forget to find some small contentment.
Please, please don't forget to sing, sing like a songbird.
Lest we forget that you too could be resplendent
lest we forget your stories never just meandered.
Pegging us existentially like owls in their holes
pinning-us like butterflies' in their dusty motes.