Stone Sentries


Under a lap-robe of somber stars
an immortal ring of stones shroud
a deep chasm.
Intemporal sentinels of the abyss.

Millennia pass, and
they have grown forgetful about
what they watch for
or whom they guard.

Unremitting, they perch,
stone-faced
in a sonorous tempo of slumber,
Dream-swimming magma wombs
fathoms below their reach.


Poem Copyright TJ Currey
All Rights Reserved