a toad hopped up
one day to me
and said
nothing
but looked quite
serious and
made it
quite
clear that he
and I were
not that
different

why,
he would not
explain,
but
how we drifted
together,
this toad
and
I,
was quite
clear

sitting there for hours
we said nothing
and did nothing

each of us a stone
in our own ways

then toad got up one day
and left me with my ilk

his message silent
his meaning quite
clear