Volunteer

Today I begin to coordinate a support group for staff at the Clinic where I volunteer.  When I volunteered to do this, the group was thought to address one issue.  Last week one of the two clinic sites completely flooded, destroying all the records.  That site will not re-open, and all the staff and patients have been consolidated to one location.  Yesterday was the first day with everyone together.  When people gather this afternoon, we will see what is needed.

Amazing are the things

Which need

A volunteer.

I count hours as a counselor

Volunteer

For free supervision.

Still it seems

Nothing ever really

Comes free.

Unknown strings,

Untied shoelaces

Trip me up,

No matter how much

Volunteer paperwork

I turn in.

There are always more I-s to be dotted,

T-s to be crossed.

The last jot and tittle

Won*t be discovered

Until after everything we know

Has been said and done.

Still amazing

Those things which require

A volunteer,

No tit for tat

Nothing ventured

Nothing gained

Nothing ever quite

What it seems.

There is more than enough

Volunteer work,

Free supervision

Or not.

There is always more than enough.

Every single bit counts.

We will know where it figures into the big picture

When all is said and done,

When the very last piece

Is set in place.