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| Colton Stinger Class of 2019 |
To have a heart of stone is not to be heartless.
And what some deem a curse is God's way to bless.
For the hardest of hearts are forged by hellfire and brimstone,
And it is from these fires that God's light is shown.
Yet you would conceal it and leave it to burn,
But your unhardened heart will secretly yearn
To feel its warmth and to know its fire.
For indeed, that is your deepest desire.
Yet you let it pass by, holding back your admission
That you secretly use it to achieve your ambition.
You, the soft-hearted, are too weak for war,
Too timid and sheepish to resist anymore,
The cruel and cold-hearted, the monsters of men.
You were lost; you were found. Now you're lost once again.
You were drawn to their strength, down a cold icy path
and hastened to feel the blunt of God's wrath.
And though you were warned you still could not see,
Nor could you hear the stone-hearteds’ plea.
That fire tempered heart fights to save you, and yet
You toss them aside, ever eager to forget.
A war must be fought; the deed must be done
And justice dispensed for the heart to be won.
So the stone-hearted stand ever ready and sure
To battle and make the soft-hearted secure.
The stone-hearted wage war against the icy and infernal.
And though they may die, their heart remains eternal.
Colton Stinger, of Elizabethtown, Ky., is a junior McConnell Scholar studying chemistry and political science.