Stone’s Throw Away
Our love was
so strong that
we were just
a stone’s throw
from reconciliation,
but the stones
already slung had
so badly broken
the glass house
of our trust that
the shards seeded
a stone wall over
which no stone
could ever be
thrown again.
We were so close,
and yet so far.
I wrote this poem in 2023 for humanity, inspired by the proverb “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones”.
© Susan L Hart 2026
Susan L Hart / Author 
Broken glass is very hard to put back together again. Unless you replace it, where the glass was will remain empty, a void.
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Heartbreaking. Such is this world. Yet there is another world; one that is eternally blissful, filled with life and light! May all heartbreak lead us there.
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Yes.
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