Gretchen Reighard
If Stones Had Tongues
By James Dillet Freeman
If Stones should find a tongue,
What would they say to me?
Would they deliver sermons
About tranquility?
I think that being tranquil
Is more than being still,
And so I think their silence
Is not of their free will.
Although stones seem to stay
As in a solemn trance,
I understand their atoms
Perpetually dance.
And so if stones had tongues,
I would not think it strange
If they gave learned lectures
About the joys of change..