Arches Reflect: Pillars of Human Passage

We stand still as stone, hold our shape over time Watchers of the mosque, we watch as masks walk Each passing stride a new universe of re-re-redesign Every step under us, on the same curve of cold rock Carved from the whole, statues with earth-turning toes Clay feet on a cobbled road, yet we continue Seeing the still-captured unease of being alone Static herd, sighing hive, we eye worlds within you Still, we'll spill your secrets when a wrong wind hits us Whether from heaven's breath or heathen sent Neither faith nor time nor bombs colliding play favorites, All of it razes all of us, to a gatherless disorientation Mere dust, trading memories of your faces from the belly of what's left, The plastic bottle; an eternal hourglass, immune to time’s theft