Black Poetry : pebbles walk...

dnommo

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"Earth has no sorrow That heaven cannot heal…"
- Richard Smallwood


I remembered this when I
Walked the shores of yesterday
Collecting the pebbles of pain
Into my bruised weary arms;

I looked over the shores before me
Watching the waves roll in with a
Quiet thunder of redemption for all
The steps that have led me here;

Off to my left I see a pier high above
The rolling shores and I wonder if I
Could carry my pains that far when
I Have carried them so long already;

I venture forth towards the pier as
Each step felt heavier than the one
Before And I stopped every few
moments to Pick up pebbles lost;

these new pains are not mine but left
by many who walked before and I know
that leaving them will, through time
grow into stones blokcing another’s path;

I reach the pier with my arms stretched to
Their limits from the weight of depression
Laid heavy upon my chest and my back is
Bent from the adjustment of weight to walk;

As I reach the end of the pier I can see far across
The sea where the sun is setting on another day
And I look down into the ravaging waves that
Crash against the foundation on which I stand;

I slowly begin to drop the pebbles into the sea
Giving each one a chance to resurface and
Watch as each stone slowly disappears into the
depths of the ever increasing ravage of the sea;

as each pebble is released I feel my strength
returned and my arms build strength for the
weight that I carried has become lighter as I
continue to release the pebbles of pain;

With the drop of the last pebble I find my
weakness is gone and my arms no longer
weary from the past and the ravaging seas
below me have subsided to a calming peace;

I shall sit on the piers edge and listen to the
hush as I await another traveler to come toss
stones into the sea as the sun sets for the night
waving goodbye to me with a crescent moon smile.
 

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