| THE CALLUS |
| DONALD ELLIS JANUARY 30,1996 |
| A CALLUS IS A HARD LITTLE THING USALLY WORN BY THE COMMON MAN TO REPRESENT HIS TOILS AND LABOR WORKING ON KNEES AND HANDS. FROM EACH CALLUS COMES A STRORY OF JUST HOW IT WAS EARNED SOME BRING GREIF,SOME BRING JOY AND SOME ARE NEVER LEARNED. A CALLUS MAY BE ON THE HAND CAUSED BY ONE MAN'S FOOLISH DREAM WHILE ON SOME OTHERS THER WAS A PLAN TO HELP SOME HUMAN BEING. A LOT I'M SURE WERE CAUSED IN VAIN AND SOME WERE CAUSED BY RULE SOME WERE BORN BY SPECIAL MEN AND SOME WERE BORN BY FOOLS. SOME FORM OF THEM CAN BE TREATED AND VERY QUICKLY HEAL SOME OTHERS HAVE BEEN THERE SO LONG THEY SEEM TO FORM A SEAL. A CALLUS MAY BE THOUGHT TO BE JUST ON THE KNEES AND HAND OH DEAR FRIEND THE MOST COMMON PLACE IS ON THE HEART OF MAN WHEN AS A CHILD THAT LITTLE HEART IS SO VERY PURE FOLKS JUST SEEM TO PASS IT BY THERE IS NOTHING THERE TO CURE. THIS OLDER HEART IS THE ONE THAT SEEMS TO TAKE THE TOLL OF A CALLUS THOUGHT, FROM A THOUGHTLESS MIND FROM SOME WITH A LOST SOUL. |