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Stone-People, Hearts As Cold As Frozen Stones Stone-people, hard dried in their vanity all around they lay- with their dead talking Delight in mere tinges of sanity closing rock-hard blind eyes when they slow-squawk! Stone-people, every realm's black pot has some miserable places have too many Sad faces, they are not too slow or dumb yet life would be better without any! We may wonder why they are so stone-dry dry is fine if served with slice of great wit Yet in their solemn realms no smile may fly and happiness, they will have none of it! Stone-people have one solitary use To act as tormentors and heap abuse! Robert J. Lindley, 1-22-2017 Sonnet Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 Total # Syllables: 140 Total # Words: 102 Note- Stone-people, is short term used for, cold stone-hearted people. Stone-hearted people, always ready with a negative comment, to rain on any person's parade. Some are even vile and vicious in that dark dedication to abusing others. The more innocent the victim is, the more they delight in tormenting. Especially when adults are verbally abusing young children, even some teachers do such things. Such was the case many decades ago when my best friend's sister suffered such abuse at school. She told nobody about it (until she was an adult), thus the evil vermin got away with it the entire school year. At least three or four days a week she would get on the school bus with tears in her eyes. I saw her decades after it had happened , talked to her and thought of this evil she had endured in silence, as her brother had only told me about, after they both were adults and in college. She passed away back in the late 80's, but her memory remains with me to this day. This morn, I read a poem on child abuse and sat down to compose this immediately afterwards, thinking of her and how innocent she was at that time! Yes, such monsters truly exist, as her tormentor surely was one such wicked beast! When I was told back in the mid 70's about this evil that had befallen her, I went in search for this guy to have a man to monster chat, if you know what I mean.. It had been about 14 years since he did that evil (sadistic verbal abuse) to an innocent girl, my friend's younger sister and he had moved away. After a couple weeks went by, I finally got a line on him and found out that he had been drowned in a boating accident...about 7 years after moving away! Which to me was Karma that had been served and served quite well methinks!
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