One Picture Puzzle Piece

The boss (in Hong Kong) I have worked with all this time has decided to leave the bank and do his own thing. He will be going really soon. He has had a major impact on my professional life, and a key role in putting me where I am now. I am very grateful to him, and will miss him.

There is a farewell journal being sent around the department for us to write our goodbyes to him. Here's mine.

One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.

Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.

- Children's poem, "Picture Puzzle Piece", by Shel Silverstein, from "A Light in the Attic" (1981)

Thanks CS for everything, and all the best for life's possibilities.