Over the wild sea
Trade winds frolic among sails
A gull’s mournful cry
Ryan Stone
Windswept
For a time
For a time
You were everything.
Your smile
Lit sparks
That raced
Down my spine,
My heart skipped a beat
When you
Spoke to me.
The world paused
So we could run free.
You seemed so divine
For a time.
Things always change.
Forever’s a dream,
Every summer
Has rain.
I stopped being
The light in your world,
Once again
You’re a mystery girl.
I know you’ll find love,
I know you’re not mine,
But I want you to know
I was yours
For a time.
Ryan Stone
Oblivious
A widow slumbers
As red and blue fireflies weave
Swiftly through the night
Ryan Stone
The Fall
Alone on the edge
One more tree in a forest
With no one to hear
Ryan Stone
Drinking the Dawn
A young elephant can die
of a broken heart
should his mother leave.
I was an elephant once
just for a time.
Then I stood up,
tusk and trunk,
like she taught me –
stepped onto the prairie;
dry eyes drinking the dawn.
Ryan Stone
days of stone 