Stories

From a lifetime ago

Etched in stone tablet

Arising from the sea

On a distant shore

In languages incomprehensible

To the discoverers.

Stories

Carved in stone

To be forgotten

By a craven wanderer

Running from the past

A tired mind

Seeking a new peace.

Stories

The pain to be washed away

Cleansed and made anew

Love and life

Lost and regained

The writing ceases

But the story does not…