Stone

POSTED IN contemporary poetry October 22, 2013

Stone

God doesn’t live
inside a stone,
on top of a stone
or under a stone.
God
was always
a stone.

A Sisyphus stone
rolled forever
up and down
the mountains
of the absurd.

Should we wait
until the stone
grinds down,
Ares bored
with war;
for Hades
to unchain
the universe?

Perhaps there is
another way
Sisyphus, Hades
and Ares lost;
just throw away
the stone.

 

 

 

 

Tom Hemeon