**I stir**: A feeling of tragedy and incompleteness. There is something this boy cannot seem to obtain such as companions or time to fight against hopelessness. I too have felt this "stuckness" that perpetuates itself again and again.

**I witness**: The two line stanzas are great for keeping a poem brief and fragmented even if the poem has 100 stanzas. It reads like a section of a comic offering instances of a story, but ambiguity to wonder how exactly something happens. I am a fan of the two-line stanza.

**I yearn**: Is there betrayal or a blindside event in-between these lines? Why would an echo be salvation? That echo could be anything: encouragement, yes, but it could also berate him.

**I Claim**: I like the usage of position "flew", "fell", "beneath", "stop", "echo", and "top". It gives the poem the (no pun intended) highs and lows of emotion. That turmoil is emotional vertigo. It has a very greek epic theme to it and reminds me of "Icarus". That or the feeling of "going nowher

Beautifully imagined. Both captivating and and potent. Being forgotten after accomplishing such a task as climbing a mountain top, and then dying there in the cold, which must have taken as much courage to tell as it did to do. 

I was inspired to write the poem after seeing a picture of a boy who had died in Mosul fighting for ISIS. The "a stone from me, a knife from you" was just a way of connecting the Boy's motivation to fall "into fold" and the forces at home and abroad that drove him to make that decision.

I think the rhythm is very tight though I didn't get the meaning of 

>a stone from me, a knife from you 

    the boy knew not from which they flew  
    a stone from me, a knife from you  


    and so the boy fell into fold  
    so blind he was to ice and cold  


    that when the fire indeed was done  
    there lay beneath a setting sun  


    the boy who waits for time to stop  
    an echo on the mountaintop 


https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/5anmrf/how_are_you/
https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/5ao5mj/gnawing/

Echo on the Mountain Top