"Stone upon Stone"

I once built a stone wall.... Not very long, just enough to mark between here and there.... I made sure it had two flat stones side by side for sitting,... for talking,... and listening.... Sometimes I go there and sit, waiting for you.... Thinking you might just show up one day.... Sometimes waiting is the hardest part.... But I wait until the sunsets, and sometimes until the sun rises. I wait for you, looking over my land and yours.... Knowing God meant us to be together, no matter what others say.... The last time we spoke you said I was more courageous than you. Not true,... I just know what we have is too precious to lose... That is why I sit tall upon this stone wall, waiting for you. Knowing that your heart loves me,... knowing that I love only you. 

I'll wait, however long it takes.... 

And if I wobble and fall,...

because you are not there to steady me.

Like Humpty Dumpty breaking into a thousand pieces.

I will lay there knowing...... you are the only one who can put me back together again. 

         

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          Art Garfunkel: All I know.

Reviews

[ETERNITY]

Wow. Just wow. What a romantic. In this write the author paints the perfect picture of perfect love.
Sacrifice of one's self.
Everyone will relate. Everyone should relate.
To not fall and break into those thousand pieces, still waiting, that person is needed.
Beautiful and romantic. Depending if it's love or friendship. Clever write.

[Randall]

Thank you, Eternity.
Some things are written from imagination, others from life. I'm glad you felt what was put to paper in this writing.

Randall...

[ETERNITY]

Randall, you are an amazing author. I know you know that. Eternity

[Randall]

Thanks, Eternity. :)

[Curly Grace]

There’s a quiet ache in this, the wall, the waiting, the way hope becomes its own kind of prayer. Your imagery feels lived-in and tender, like a place someone could actually sit and breathe for a while.

[red93]

Interesting Piece on many levels R - the crafting of the wall takes skill certainly, but is it a metaphor ? I am sure the significant other will return soon, to fulfill the dream state. Really Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Randall]

Thank you, Red. The real trick is not to lose your balance and fall off the wall like Humpty Dumpty before they return. Always keep a firm grip and smile.
Randall...

[Fabian G. Franklin]

We can never depend upon others for our happiness, this much I know. And love is never given with expectations or ultimatums or else it isn't love at all but a trade. But love is not impeded by time or circumstance and I agree with Shakespeare on that point. Love is Eternal and the secret, sacred name of God. What if instead of saying, I love you, we said, I feel God in my heart for you? Then the liars would most certainly be easier to weed out. I enjoyed the read.

[Randall]

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-William Shakespeare-

Thank you, Fabian. I enjoyed your read on Shakespeare and your thoughts on how to express love to others.

Randall...

[Fabian G. Franklin]

One of my favorite sonnets by the Bard. Happy writings, F.

[John the Baptist]

Not sure if what we are seeing here is devotion or obsession. We are not advised as to why the speaker has to keep a lonely vigil. The speaker has no doubts, though, and will wait for as long as it takes. The beloved is the one and the only one. Such devotion can only end in either triumph or tragedy.

[Randall]

Thank you, John. You ask the right questions, devotion or obsession. I like to think both, but put another way. Obsessive devotion, I don't believe the speaker even knows why he keeps a lonely vigil. Just knowing that he must, because he loves her and believes she loves him. You are right again, the tragedy of his falling off the wall and breaking into a thousand pieces. The triumph is knowing that only she could put him back together again. Thank you, John.
Randall...

By the way, John, I know where they buried your head. I'll send you a map later, X marks the spot.

[Chris Shaw]

I’ll wait, however long it takes

Such courageous words here. When your heart speaks and you know for certain you have to listen. Intense in its longing. Penned beautifully Randall.

Chris

[Randall]

Thank you, Chris. How do you measure how long it takes? Perhaps the same way God measures time. read more Thank you, Chris. How do you measure how long it takes? Perhaps the same way God measures time.
"I am Alpha and Omega."

[emmajoygreen]

The deep feelings in your writing are almost too intense, yet how you challenge yourself here is amazingly courageous too. How hard to apportion challenge with perhaps a sense of doubt. You write with a great heart and finesse, sir.

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[Randall]

Thank you, Emma Joy Green. For your most Gracious thoughtful review.

The challenge has been set before me. I will meet it anyway, I have to. Courage is the right way to face it. The other way would be cowardly walking away from what you know is right.... A sense of doubt, maybe. But that word will be banned from my pen forever.... A Great heart... is wherever love and intense feelings are found..... Finesse, with a pen,... a man's love for a woman is like a child dancing around a Maypole with hopes for Spring.

Randall...

[emmajoygreen]

Superbly put, sir!

'A Great heart... is wherever love and intense feelings are found..... Finesse, with a pen,... a man's love for a woman is like a child dancing around a Maypole with hopes for Spring.'