Center Fire Poetry
Scott DuRoff's Poetic Musings on Life, Love and Death
  • Poetry Talk
  • The Unrung Bell
  • One Bit of Difference
  • Some Time to Kill
  • Old Stones
  • Home
  • Slipping Away
  • Mockingbird
  • Seeds
  • Barstools
  • Easy Grace
  • Mineral Man
  • The Skinny Branches
  • Why Not?
  • The Priestess
  • Autumn
  • For Now and Forever
  • Reliable Foundations
  • The Right To Folly
  • A New Recruit
  • Yes!
  • All The Angles
  • Happy Fourth Of July
  • The Gravity of Being
  • My Love
  • Make The Trade
  • The Horns of the Minotaur
  • Walking Away
  • Anywhere But Here
  • Meat Dance
Picture
Reliable Foundations
Is that water dripping?
Or only the clock ticking
Away the moments
Of my too often
Unconsidered life.

In full sunlight
I light the candle
Hoping to burn away
The habitual complacency
Stuck uneasily in my throat.

I search around me
For a meaningful
Explanation of the
Loneliness and isolation
In the child’s eyes.


What responsibility
Do I bear for her
Wounded places?
Can I be the Great Stone
Upon which she can

Rest her weary head?
Perhaps trust is the only
Reliable foundation upon
Which her sweet precious life
Can be safely built.



Oh Great Spirit!
May I be worthy of her trust!

 Scott DuRoff 8/2012

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