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Rock Freedom

LARGE PEBBLE ON SHELF AT HOME
STOLEN FROM THE SEA
IT KEPT NAGGING ME
TAKE ME HOME!
WHY DID YOU CAPTURE ME?
ROCK WAS RIGHT, I HAD NO RIGHT
TO TAKE HIM MILES AWAY FROM HOME
BACK TO MY SUBURBAN HOME!
SO ON MY NEXT SEASIDE SWIM
I ACCOMPANIED HIM
TO MY NEAREST BIT OF SEA
EVEN THEN I FELT BAD
HAD I DEPRIVED HIM OF MUM AND DAD?
I HAD NO IDEA OF THE EXACT SPOT
TO POP HIM BACK WITH HIS FRIENDLY LOT
WAIST DEEP I PLOPPED HIM IN
WONDERING IF HE’D FIND HIS KIN
INSIDE I FELT RELIEVED
THAT’LL TEACH ME I THOUGHT,
TO MEDDLE WITH A PEBBLE!

20 May 2024