Themes and Insights
The Cast Stone
The Pain of Unrequited Love: The narrator’s struggles with the absence of reciprocated love, feeling as though their affection is unreturned and ignored.
Contemplation of Worth: The repeated reflection on personal value and the feeling of being unwanted, standing in contrast to the "greater" figures around them.
Symbolism of the Cast Stone: The metaphor of the cast stone represents a love that has hardened and been thrown away, symbolizing the narrator’s emotional state.
The Passage of Time: The poem explores how, despite the passing of years, the pain, memories, and feelings of isolation remain unchanged, as if stuck in time.
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The Cast Stone
I drink the ash from the remnants of this delusion
always returned to that which outlived
everyone
in the end
as the beginning
What is it that this man would think?
What matter would course the blood
of they who travel in a time
I can only witness
as they all pass?
That this stone would find its way into my heart
cursing me as all have done
given ear unto the song
of this world’s hatred
for all that I have loved
As again my own blood
dismantles this body
waning to a pulse
with no more rhythm
nor words to give of comfort
And there am I still
as so many years ago
standing upon the dirt road
contemplating my own worth
to a place that prefers my silence
…
Truly nothing has changed
as I reached out to that empty house
knowing then as now
none shall follow me.
Greater then I are fathers
Yet I can’t abandon the vision
of the great love spoken to me
as voices past
hypnotized my sacred places
of someone else’s reality
Still my voice is as the ash in my mouth
Still the sky replies not
Still the earth responds not
Still my blood dissolves
Still my love is as the cast stone
Still I dreamed
Ryan o0o
The Cast Stone
I drink the ash from the remnants of this delusion
always returned to that which outlived
everyone
in the end
as the beginning
What is it that this man would think?
What matter would course the blood
of they who travel in a time
I can only witness
as they all pass?
That this stone would find its way into my heart
cursing me as all have done
given ear unto the song
of this world’s hatred
for all that I have loved
As again my own blood
dismantles this body
waning to a pulse
with no more rhythm
nor words to give of comfort
And there am I still
as so many years ago
standing upon the dirt road
contemplating my own worth
to a place that prefers my silence
…
Truly nothing has changed
as I reached out to that empty house
knowing then as now
none shall follow me.
Greater then I are fathers
Yet I can’t abandon the vision
of the great love spoken to me
as voices past
hypnotized my sacred places
of someone else’s reality
Still my voice is as the ash in my mouth
Still the sky replies not
Still the earth responds not
Still my blood dissolves
Still my love is as the cast stone
Still I dreamed
Ryan o0o
Themes and Insights
The Cast Stone
The Pain of Unrequited Love: The narrator’s struggles with the absence of reciprocated love, feeling as though their affection is unreturned and ignored.
Contemplation of Worth: The repeated reflection on personal value and the feeling of being unwanted, standing in contrast to the "greater" figures around them.
Symbolism of the Cast Stone: The metaphor of the cast stone represents a love that has hardened and been thrown away, symbolizing the narrator’s emotional state.
The Passage of Time: The poem explores how, despite the passing of years, the pain, memories, and feelings of isolation remain unchanged, as if stuck in time.
The Cast Stone
I drink the ash from the remnants of this delusion
always returned to that which outlived
everyone
in the end
as the beginning
What is it that this man would think?
What matter would course the blood
of they who travel in a time
I can only witness
as they all pass?
That this stone would find its way into my heart
cursing me as all have done
given ear unto the song
of this world’s hatred
for all that I have loved
As again my own blood
dismantles this body
waning to a pulse
with no more rhythm
nor words to give of comfort
And there am I still
as so many years ago
standing upon the dirt road
contemplating my own worth
to a place that prefers my silence
…
Truly nothing has changed
as I reached out to that empty house
knowing then as now
none shall follow me.
Greater then I are fathers
Yet I can’t abandon the vision
of the great love spoken to me
as voices past
hypnotized my sacred places
of someone else’s reality
Still my voice is as the ash in my mouth
Still the sky replies not
Still the earth responds not
Still my blood dissolves
Still my love is as the cast stone
Still I dreamed
Ryan o0o
Themes and Insights
The Cast Stone
The Pain of Unrequited Love: The narrator’s struggles with the absence of reciprocated love, feeling as though their affection is unreturned and ignored.
Contemplation of Worth: The repeated reflection on personal value and the feeling of being unwanted, standing in contrast to the "greater" figures around them.
Symbolism of the Cast Stone: The metaphor of the cast stone represents a love that has hardened and been thrown away, symbolizing the narrator’s emotional state.
The Passage of Time: The poem explores how, despite the passing of years, the pain, memories, and feelings of isolation remain unchanged, as if stuck in time.
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