Shifting Sands

Shifting sands, ever changing
with the always steady beating
of the planets heartbeat.
Patterns dynamic in their structure
always different, never the same again
carried on the wings of the wind
and its passing whim.
Hills and valleys dot the landscape
flat lands going nowhere lead ever onward.
Tiny grains of sand alone
are naught but infinitesimal specks
but together they can be mighty indeed.
Life abounds in this ever changing universe
with times passing it continues to fight
in order to survive its sandy domain.
To exist at it is/was destined too
is the only truth it knows.
Grains of sand mark the passing of time
minutes, hours, moving ever onward
with the shifting of sand, never to be retrieved.
Where it begins no one seems to know
its ending a mystery as well
is the end the beginning, or is the beginning the end?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006



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Date: 6/14/2009 5:01:00 PM
I sugest a line at break "Patterns", "Hills" "Life" "To exsist" "Grains" "Where" last line....."Its ending a mystery, as well. /Is the end the beginning, or is the beginning the end? Light and Love..and we'll never know ;)
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