~AMISH STONE~

Simplicity, in all things.....

I love the style of life

the Amish live, the working husband

the loving, working wife,

the children and their rosy cheeks

healthy with sunlight and good, plain food,

going barefoot in the summer weeks.....

and in the graveyards, the

simplicity carries through.....

some of the stones are old

and some are new......

simple Amish stones

mark the places where the

faithful sleep

nothing fancy, no guardian angels

made of marble or rough hewn rock;

a little lamb, stops by to graze

in the warming springtime days,

There is little time to weep

for the loved one lost, little time to talk

about the child who's gone....

for now the farming must go on.

There'll be time enough

when the winter snows

cover the little Amish stones

with white, when the landscape knows

that we all need time to just reflect

on life; the way we store and collect

memories, dreams and thoughts of those

who have gone before, not to

walk with us anymore.

I'll think often of the little Amish stone

and the little lamb standing there all alone

Amish stones, and springtime life

and the Amish farmer and his wife.

© Christina 7-04

Photo by Bill Coleman