Seven Stones Seven Rocks Seven Sands

I have a small gray rock placed by my bed Each day it is the first thing which I see. It stands on guard and watches over me. Alone a gray, smooth rock, it stands on guard Well weathered, polished stone, from wind-blown sand. It was wind-blown and lost in dust of time. I found this stone near covered with such sand. It had lain lost, I think, since time began. Without another rock to call a friend. There was no other rock, one stone alone. The God of sand, I may well keep this thought. No other stone to judge its size I found. I thought at first it was a grain of sand One stone alone, in all this sand and lost. This stone would save me form this sea of sand. My guarding rock this rock became my friend. My rock I love and loves me back, my stone. It sits, it guards me, guards me from the thought-- I am alone in all this sea of sand.