Time

Stone tells a story
Of a vast sea
Millions of years old
Millions of years ago

Layer upon layer
Of silt
Of time
Accumulating

The mantle shifts
Plate dives under plate
The ocean bed rises

Becomes land
Becomes mountains
Becomes a high plateau

All in time
Precious time
Copious time

Then weather
Wind
And water again

Eats away
At stone
At time

And now, here is time
In all its beauty
Written in stone
Captured on film

In one sixtieth of a second

It’s only time
Beautiful time
Stopped for one moment
Now