A Mind's Dying Verse (the Solitary Stone)

From towers and trees

And churning seas

Controlling nature's will

From your window sill

Past the glass

The sun won't last

And if you had your way

They'd all be dismal days

We'd stay inside

Like you and hide

And wish that things would change

From behind window panes

But grab the reigns

And nurse those pains

Because many years have past

And your still stuck in last

Initials carved in trees

Representing you and me

Are now lost

And just washed

Out like stones into the sea

And boxes full of bones

Resting under polished stones

Represent

A fallen soldier

Left to die at war alone

From the start your heart was cursed

And the wine has made it worse

And sixteen years

Of captured tears

Have formed a mind's dying verse

It's a perversion of the arts

And young men's hearts,

An abomination

Of creation

Tearing brilliant minds apart

It's carved in bark

Circled with hearts,

It's a testament

To the love you've spent

You cross it out

When new loves sprout

Or when they come to bloom;

You're leaving wooden tombs

To leave a mark

Of hearts you've sparked

And turned to raging flames

Until you're feelings change

Now douse them fast

But leave the ash

Because it's a blackened pit

That they won't forget

Initials carved in trees

Representing you and me

Are now lost

And just washed

Out like stones into the sea

And boxes full of bones

Resting under polished stones

Represent

A fallen soldier

Left to die at war alone

From the start your heart was cursed

And the wine has made it worse

And sixteen years

Of captured tears

Have formed a mind's dying verse

It's a perversion of the arts

And young men's hearts,

An abomination

Of creation

Tearing brilliant minds apart

Boxes of bones

And polished stones

Are all that we have left

To commemorate the deaths

Of child and man

And life's cruel hand

Has tightened up it's grip

On your sinking ship

Now flowers are left

Where you now rest;

It's in a field alone,

A solitary stone

It cracks and splits

And the world forgets

And goes about it's day

In the usual way