The Rock – a Poem

I hope everyone had a good holiday season. Sorry for the lack of posts. My blogging usually drops off during the holidays with visitors and visiting. But I am back now and here is a draft of a poem I have been working on… Or I might convert it into a short story. It’s similar to the old Grimm Brothers’ stories. Enjoy!

The Rock

By Robin A. Burrows

A young man journeyed

Into the wilderness

In the frozen wastes

In search of the legendary

Rock of Strength.

He wandered

For months, searching

And when he was

Hopelessly lost

And ready to give up

He banged his knee against

Something hard

In a snow drift.

Brushing away snow,

He found the enormous

Rock buried in fresh snow.

He camped there for the night

To get a better look the next morning

But a blizzard buried him

And the young man

Nearly froze to death.

As he tried to dig his way out,

He found a loose patch of snow.

Pushing through it

He discovered a small tunnel

Into the impenetrable rock.

Crawling inside,

The heart of the stone

Was a protective cave

Glittering with crystals

And spider webbed with

Thousands of tiny fractures

Invisible from outside.

And at the top he could see

Snow blowing above outside

Through a hole where a huge crystal

Had once been.

He couldn’t believe the legendary

Rock of Strength was so fragile inside.

His friends would never believe him.

So using his spoon handle,

He tried to pry out

One of the remaining crystals

As proof.

Gently, he slid the handle of his spoon

In the crack between a crystal

And the stone.

With a quick twist of the spoon

The crystal flew from the rock

But it crumbled into dust

Upon touching his hand.

And the web of cracks in the stone

Deepened and widened

Shattering around the young man

Until he sat amongst a pile of rubble.

Epilogue:

The young man froze to death

From his own stupidity.

The End.

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