The stars shine in the nights <br />and on the stage, they sparkle <br />with much elegance and might. <br />They are idolized, iconized, <br />and spectators get infected <br />by this great fever as the stars <br />sparkle and shine. <br /> <br />While from below the ground <br />the servants lay their lives <br />in the remotest mountains, <br />slums, villages and valleys <br />where human needs are attended, <br />love and compassion, extended- <br />not seeking the grandeur <br />to sparkle and shine on the great stage <br />but willing to lose themselves- <br />excluded, secluded, persecuted. <br /> <br />The stars shine in elegance <br />for themselves <br />The servants lose themselves <br />to serve.<br /><br />Elizabeth Padillo Olesen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/of-stars-and-servants/
