Earth Journeys
“Earth Journeys”
Walking on a beach, I stop, pick up a grain of sand.
“Where did you come from?” I ask.
It replies:
“Once I was a mountain, forest covered,
my peaks reached for the sky.
Then I became a boulder,
on the backs of glaciers I rode for a time.
Eventually, weathered to a rock,
I was picked up by a swift stream,
to be deposited, as a pebble,
somewhere out in the sea.
Finally as a grain, I floated the currents,
north, south, west, and east.
Until one day, while riding a wave,
I was thrown here, becoming a beach.
For millions if years I’ve made the journey
from rocky mountain to island sand.
Riding on glaciers, sailing the oceans,
oh the life of the living land.”
I lay the grain back on it’s beach,
wish it well, and walk away.
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Comments (3)
Wow, that’s a great poem – did you write that one, Steve?
Yes I did Karl. Back in 1995.
makes one think of the cycles of life.