Heavier than Stone

Take a sack of stones
put it around your neck
or fill it up with sand
and put it on your back

Carry that weight
from morning till night
it will drag you down
no matter your pow'r or might

Now imagine provocation
brought on by a fool
an inflammatory comment
that makes you lose your cool

Your mind begins to race
with angry words and thoughts
your heart beats with haste
much faster than it ought

You go about your day
thinking of how to prove him wrong
you repeat repeat repeat those thoughts
like lyrics from an irritating song

Your anger becomes a stone
that weighs upon your neck
your day is spent as if
a sack of sand is on your back

Proverbs 27:3 NIV
Stone is heavy and sand a burden,
but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.