Tomorrow In A Year

An intersection of the plain

by the bank of some great stream

the animal carcasses

and skeletons would be

entombed

Tomorrow in a year

tomorrow in a million years

Ages resting in

the rings of a tree.

Fossils in lay in slate

marking the old forest's edge

I've stood on a mountain

dividing three regions.

Then it was just a pebble

that I held inside my hand

In between each flap

of a butterfly's wings,

countless changes

that have gone on unnoticed

A cricket rubs it's forewings

together and I am forced

to think of the time that it's taken

to build

Mountains fossils

Larva lava

As Algae moves through water.

Cupping the soil

Ages move across epochs.

Within my hands

There's grandeur in this view,

It teams with life

a constant succession

these endless forms

My heart beats 70

times per minute

Stretching out over years

a wilderness

layer on layer life embedded in stone

stretching out before me

a wilderness.