Stone Walls
Click for meditationRegarding "Stone Walls"
In today’s impermanent,
Transitory culture,
Stone walls can speak
To all of us. They stand for
Faithfulness and duty
And enduring accomplishment,
Not only in their own
Continued longevity
And legacy and existence,
But in the homage
They pay to the
Character of those
Who so lovingly
Built them, and whose
Spirits are still
Imbued into each
And every stone lifted and
So carefully placed.
Leo Carroll
April 18, 2018
Where are my children,
My grandchildren and heirs, as
You, you strangers,
Pass me near?
They formed these
Walls, they placed these
Stones, in long ago act to
Carve this home.
And now you come
This November brief, and
Sit the moss my
Walls lone keep…
Tell my children, my
Grandchildren and heirs, I still
Silently stand to all
They did here.