I am looking for a poem entitled "Bits and Pieces" which I can't seem to locate. I don't know the author of the poem, but it goes something like

Bits and pieces, bits and pieces People important to you, people unimportant to you Shuffle into and out of your life.....

And continues on, making the basic point that those people important to you may leave your life, but you are forever changed for having known them. Does anyone have a copy of this poem, or know where I can find one, or who the author is? Thanks.

-- Debbie (dbujnow@wpo.it.luc.edu), April 04, 1999

Answers

Bits & Pieces unknown author

Bits & Pieces Bits & Pieces

People, people important to you, people unimportant to you cross your life, touch it with love and carelessness and move on. There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of relief and wonder why you ever came into contact with them.

There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of remorse and wonder why they had to go away and leave such a gaping hole. Children leave parents, friends leave friends. Acquaintances move on. People change houses. People grow apart. Enemies hate and move on. Friends love and move on. You think of the many who have moved into your hazy memory. You look on the present and wonder.

I believe in a master plan, in lives moving. People in and out of each others lives, and each leaves their mark on the other. You find, you are made up of bits & pieces of all who ever touched your life, and you are more because of it, and you would be less if they had not touched you.

Hope that you accept the bits & pieces in humility and wonder, and never question, and never regret.

Bits & pieces Bits & pieces

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 05, 1999.