Memory

 Today, well over seven billion people walk, crawl and wheel across the Earth.
This very minute, 301,640 of those people have just been born,
and 126,695 have left the world as we know it.

Most people only really get to know around seventeen others;
but who remembers the rest?
If everyone is just another face in the crowd, another brick in the wall,
who will notice any one person?

When I am gone and you are gone, a hundred years from now,
who will remember you and I?

Look again.

I don't just see humanity, I see people;
not just the forest, but each of the trees;
not just Earth, but all 7.8 billion people,
20 quintillion animals,
132 billion plants,
and everything else that comes between them.

Someone will remember you, and someone will remember me,
and someone will remember every other person that once was on Earth.

Today, well over seven billion people walk, crawl and wheel across the Earth.
Look again.