The Rock

  Behold a rock.. an innocuous, inanimate object. It sits unnoticed upon a pile of rubble. It does not demand attention or deserve a second glance. Its just an ordinary, uneventful, unimportant part of the landscape.

Yet who can say what this rock had witnessed? Perhaps if it had a mind and allowed to tell its story, it would tell us of the great upheavals in the vowels of the earth. It would tell us of the great mass from whence it was torn apart  by the forces that roil the planet. Perhaps it might relate another story, of which mankind may have had some benefit.

It might have been part of a great edifice, an essential component that held a monument together. Borne witness to a great civilization, sheltered the great and the  powerful, and had seen the the rise and fall of leaders, their capriciousness or heroism, their baseness and nobility.

What wars has it witnessed as men fought and tore down edifices that symbolized a hated regime? The rivers of blood that marked the pasage of generations, and the weapons that were wrought to destroy cultures and civilizations. It knew not of the dignity of the protagonists’ births, but perhaps discerned the sacrifice and nobility of their deaths.

Or perhaps, it could have been a part of a creation of art, lovingly shaped and crafted by the hand of a master to represent a thing of beauty, and admired for it symbolism and noble purpose. What dainty civilities must it have witnessed among its patrons? And what inanities and pretensions must it have heard among the critics in the crowd?

Maybe its just  an ordinary rock.  Best left alone in its grimy majesty atop a pile of useless rubble. It has had its 60 seconds of fame.  Let it be.

And so it is that a story among living and inanimate objects may be told. What tales could come out rational thoughts and what symbols can the written word paint?

Life is a canvass. And we tell our stories in various perspectives. Beyond the chaos, there is order, and amid the order there are intermittent rumblings of things to come.