On The Foot Of The Hill Is A Child Near The House Playing Alone Poem by RIC BASTASA

what are pebbles? you know how to impress this kid
asking you to draw a rainbow that bridges two hills

on the foot of the hill is a child near the house playing
alone, and such loneliness makes this kid by your side
asks for flowers and birds and skies,

and you tell him, ' kiddo, these pebbles are seeds' and
even if you throw them away because you do not like
their silence and hardness, they always grown on the
side of the hills bridged by this rainbow where the lonely
child of your sorrow dreams too of you to be with him

one day, when imagination and reality blends like body and
soul, like yeast and dough, like salt and water, like man and
woman, like roots and rocks.