THE OPPORTUNITY

I held that thought in trembling hands, not daring, as I looked at it, to contemplate where it led.
Uncertainty and cowardice made me let it fall, and at my feet it lay.
Resolve, in a sudden surge, turned my fears away. At once I knelt to scoop it up, but when I looked at what I grasped, the empty air laughed in my face.
Too late: the hope of transformation had seeped into the ground,
It was forever gone -
and waste was in its place.