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# Advice
- URL: https://poetry101.love/advice/
- Published: 2021-02-12T18:53:41.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-12T18:53:41.000Z
- Description: by Ruth Stone
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Ruth Stone, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

My hazard wouldn’t be yours, not ever;  
But every doom, like a hazelnut, comes down  
To its own worm. So I am rocking here  
Like any granny with her apron over her head  
Saying, lordy me. It’s my trouble.  
There’s nothing to be learned this way.  
If I heard a girl crying help  
I would go to save her;  
But you hardly ever hear those words.  
Dear children,  
You must try to say  
Something when you are in need.  
Don’t confuse hunger with greed;  
And don’t wait until you are dead.

Stone, Ruth. [What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems](https://www.google.com/books/edition/What%5FLove%5FComes%5Fto/fNHcxda5GkoC?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Copper Canyon Press, 2010.