Today is a Day
It is not tomorrow
it is not yesterday
unique to itself
it may seem routine
and familiar
but it is entirely different,
here only once.
The wind forms the sail
and the waves are pushed
by forces of wind and moon.
Each wave, lives in this moment
and is gone when it’s gone.
We are formed by this wind
and pushed too by wind and moon
as we live in this moment;
and when it is gone, it is gone.
But for now it is today.
Lady Time
The sinews of life can seem brittle
And Time she is short and maybe a little
Annoyed with those of us
Who curry favor and fuss
About getting somewhere, being done
That we fail to appreciate, while on a run
That we are using her up, willing her speed
Until we no longer have this very need
And we find our place on the porch
Telling stories of carrying the torch
The chair cackling laughter in rhythm time
At our desires to slow, and pace our mind
So, she may choose to be a little unkind
If we have asked too much of Lady Time
Why is it that you can go back in time as you go deeper in the Earth? Where do all the layers of dirt and rock come from? Is the earth getting bigger? We live in the Holocene era. This era of time is near the surface. But millions of years in the future someone will be digging down to our time, to see what we were like, what refuge we left behind, what records of our primitive behaviors, our wars, our industry, our pollution, and our lives and entertainment.
But back to the question, does the Earth get fatter? Well not really, the Earth is recycling, it brings it’s core through volcanic action lava and ash to layer over the surface. Water crushes rock and deposits it from rivers and glaciers move boulders, and rock and dirt is displaced, and continents move, creating mountain ranges that give us majestic views. The layering of one continent over another drives them to grand heights and layers of earth below. Our planet is living and breathing at a metabolism much lower than we can sometimes comprehend. But it is alive and it will have its say about our era, and sometime in its lifetime it will bury us deep, deep enough that we will start over and find our way towards a new era, billions of years from now.