Light announces day
Hourglass stands
Loosing life with each drop of time on
Each grain of hope.

Liquid walls of rolling glass
Invade the land
Sea insults the shore.

Storm clouds pine and sigh in complaint
Snap and bark in showers of argument
Trees
Too stiff, too tall to dance
Etch and claw in beckoning earth.

Wheat fields sway on winds of violins
Buds open in silent adoration,
Look up to see who dropped the rain?

Hourglass stills
Sand spent
Color sleeps
Symphony bows
Creation steeps.

Copyright © 2006 Ward Stothers