Hard as Rock

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When you find

Yourself at the bottom layer

Of a social ladder,

As in a row of sedimented clay,

Your outer soft shell

Eventually gives way;

But only to transmogrify,

One might haste to say,

To an igneous rock,

Your opponent will face

Daunting task

To break.

... Igneous rock,

Fluid lies

Could not possibily leak,

Through its fabric.

..Igneous rock,

Compressed in to black,

Hard tarmac,

A runway suspended

High up in the sky,

One day, may be one day for dreams to take off

And fly; earthly gravity defy.

Copyright Haileselassie Giramy

7/2/98