Handle me with utmost care <br />As you handle an egg <br />or a piece of glass <br />though I have both of their characters <br />but I am neither of them <br /> <br />I am very ordinary <br />With a fragile outside shell <br />But I hold inside <br />In my yoke <br />All the ingredients <br />Of a good food <br />For the good health <br />Of your extraordinary <br /> Powerful <br /> life <br /> <br /> if you drop me <br />treat me with contempt <br />I can easily break myself <br />With thousand pieces <br />Useless <br />Still if you step <br />Over me <br />I am powerful enough <br />To teach you a lesson <br />With my shards <br /> <br />When I am more in number <br /> And available to be picked up <br /> by the fragile hands of the street <br />and march together with fists <br />though I am an ordinary man <br /> now I am the most powerful.<br /><br />Abdul Wahab<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-the-ordinary/
