Poem - Ode to a stone

Ode to a stone

Round and smooth
Almost marble white - alabaster
You could perhaps have lain
On the battle field for centuries
Where the Philisine's mighty Goliath
Challenged the best
Of Israel to a duel

And when at last
A young small lad
Stepped forward to do battle
With the Giant Goliath
The Philistines fell about laughing
At the puny challenger
To their mighty man of war.

Picking you up
Round and smooth
Almost marble white - alabaster
David put you in his sling
And whirling the leather thong
Approved by God
Around his head
He sent the messenger of death
True and straight
To crack Goliath's skull

And claiming victors rights
David strode to where Goliath
LAY DEAD
And struck off his head
To mark David's Victory

And you round and smooth
Almost marble white - alabaster
Helped your royal to be -selector
To be come King of Israel.

by Hillie Feldman undated