Worry Not, Miserable Marble - Mixed Media (gypsum cement, found objects, graphite, charcoal, acrylic on wooden door)

Worry Not, Miserable Marble
by Jonathan Bolton

A frustrated, unyielding child
cries to long-forgotten names, begging for purpose.
A sympathetic wanderer of stars
understands no such sorrows should be carried alone,
and travels a stone’s throw across the cosmos.
The empathetic nomad with hope, alleviates the child’s stresses,
​taking the little world into its arms,
becoming its burdens,
its monuments, its mountains, its oceans,
nourishing the once-global body of the miserable marble,
and silencing every voice on its surface.