Weight of Memory
A Jewish custom is to place small stones on the gravesite to honor loved ones.
On your stone I lay
my stone, roughly round, ash grey,
still warm from my palm
About the Creator
Sonia Heidi Unruh
I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.
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