Loving Like A Rock

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Loving Like A Rock

 

Oh what a love –

To love like a rock

For rocks are products of who we are.

 

And so

Should love be,

Really.

 

Breaking down –

Separating – metamorphosing

Limestone or dolostone into marble,

Sandstone into slate, schist or gneiss,

Basalt into amphibolite.

 

The process is everchanging.

Weathering, rearranging

Over time

They form

Holding onto

Their history

Carrying a beauty

As structures shape

Among their surroundings

 

Finding, collecting

What is near

To make them

Stronger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the longer

They are around

They continue

To collect

 

And forget

What they had been

Forging ahead

To become better

 

Blending and

Sometimes fragmenting

 

These fragments

Find places of their own

As they

Combine

Theirs with others

And define

Their freedom

To express –

To illuminate –

To color

 

Yet always

Telling a story

As they change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We see

Rocks

Yet love

We cannot.

 

God gave

These rocks

To us

To teach

About love –

About Life,

Really.

 

And

As our hands

Hold a rock

Observing its

Features

Which tell all

Openly

These teachers,

God’s teachers,

 

Are not just Rock;

For they Root

The love

Which has come

From Above.

 

Annie

2-20-00

 

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