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Question: Do you know what this poem means!?
Pride, by Dahlia Ravikovitch

I tell you, even rocks crack,
and not because of age!.
For years they lie on their backs
in the heat and the cold,
so many years,
it almost seems peaceful!.
They don't move, so the cracks stay hidden!.
A kind of pride!.
Years pass over them, waiting there!.
Whoever is going to shatter them
hasn't come yet!.
And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed
whips around,
the sea pushes through and rolls back-
the rocks seem motionless!.
Till a little seal comes to rub against them,
comes and goes away!.
And sunddenly the rock has an open wound!.
I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise!.
And people, too!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
The most apparently solid things in existence break without warning!.
The most apparently solid people break too!.

The hidden fragility of the rocks is a metaphor for the same thing in people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com