One Day When You Least Expect It

The stand-up and be glorious thing about it is:

You’ll never know when or how it happens,

Never know what affect you’ve had,

Or who you’ve saved.

It might be the smile to a passing stranger,

Who was on their way to shout at someone -

A someone who would have driven home in an anger,

And didn’t see the person they knocked over.

Or a face on a train,

The one who was going to get off at the next lonely station

And jump.

But you helped them with their coat, or hat, or bag,

And they saw a warmth in life again.

Perhaps you held the door open for a soul who then

Held the door open for a stranger, who changed their minds

About pulling the trigger.

One day, when you least expect it,

You will change the world,

And you will probably never, even know.

bobby stevenson 2014