Boy Amid A Scattering Of Stones Poem by Stan Petrovich

Boy Amid A Scattering Of Stones



How could you?
I was waving goodbye in that photo
You were snapping it
A sapling I was
And cried my eyes out when I saw it
Somehow we were actually parting

Then you really left me
And I bent over crushed at coffinside
Really feeling the world firsthand
What the shattered rocks shattered for

Then the stones reached out
Hands to me
Teaching me how to dwell
Safely even in some tumble of rubbish
Like and like can attract
-No matter what the science teacher says-
Everything that can accrete will accrete
My wife and I suffered the rest together
Now we are dying of loneliness

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ken E Hall 06 August 2011

Parting after youth has devoured your love sure is crushing of stones and your last line sums it up perfectly, original...thanks for calling by Stan...regards

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Stefanie Fontker 04 August 2011

Then you really left me And I bent over crushed at coffinside Really feeling the world firsthand What the shattered rocks shattered for -Truly beautiful, your words flow in rushing waves.

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