Groundswell

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. - Thoreau

waves crash against immutable rock

a million pieces of broken glass

in but the blink of an eye

shards swept up in a foaming wash

reconvened

to crash again

standing alone amongst faithless men

clutching nothing but an eternal pen

no one knows since when

no one was there

way back then

when truth was written

amen

Author's Note

"A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky." - Thoreau