Tears Of Stone..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

once in a while
you find yourself alone
by the sea
as the typhoon rages
against the city.

and you hear the
sounds of the raging wind
and the angry sea.

it is the port that receives
all these
it is the stubborn land that
parries these attacks.

you watch all these
trying to figure out what
truth lies between this anger
and this hardness.

memories flash against the
waves,
tears of stone begin to fall.