ROCK FREEDOM

LARGE PEBBLE ON SHELF AT HOME

STOLEN FROM THE SEA

IT KEPT NAGGING ME

TAKE ME HOME!

WHY DID YOU CAPTURE ME?

ROCK WAS RIGHT, I HAD NO RIGHT

TO TAKE HIM MILES AWAY FROM HOME

BACK TO MY SUBURBAN HOME!

SO ON MY NEXT SEASIDE SWIM

I ACCOMPANIED HIM

TO MY NEAREST BIT OF SEA

EVEN THEN I FELT BAD

HAD I DEPRIVED HIM OF MUM AND DAD?

I HAD NO IDEA OF THE EXACT SPOT

TO POP HIM BACK WITH HIS FRIENDLY LOT

WAIST DEEP I PLOPPED HIM IN

WONDERING IF HE’D FIND HIS KIN

INSIDE I FELT RELIEVED

THAT’LL TEACH ME I THOUGHT

TO MEDDLE WITH A PEBBLE!

ADRIAN WHICHER

18th APRIL 2024