The Chosen One

WHITE STONE TRILOGY: Part 2 'have you not heard of the fair white stone, with its written word by one soul known, and the Lord alone?'* -* Emily Hickey Somewhere out in a desert near the edge                           of the world lives a strange old man in an adobe of earth and wood with hair and beard gray as a sunbleached ironwood on the top of a mountain ridge            at a stone of pure white with bowed head he                 kneels for he's the Chosen; reads                          One Word The old man cries but with every tear               a miracle is born as on the stone               there appears a single               Word               alone a Word never to be stained, dimmed or worn for on this world it is to be known to one soul aloneTo know the Maker's true name is to know all the secrets of the universe ... according to old legend his name would appear on a white stone to but one that is worthy. In a time long ago it was custom to give a white stone to some as an accolade - for to one of them might the Maker's name appear Written October 6th, 2001 © on Oct 06 2001 07:06 AM PST   0 • 13