Evolution

Photo by José Duarte on Unsplash

Beneath this beach of sand, shells, sea
A permanent loss of happiness awaits me.
I see this image of the rolling sea.
A new-found-land frames and hides
These wide horizons; I walk along the cliff:
Sheer drop upon the windward side,
Embedded trilobites hide beneath my feet.
Quartz and Muscovite from the granite
Weathered by winds and by waves,
Sea-formed outcrops, hidden rocks, caves.
Time carves the face of all mankind
shears the skin, sculpts the lines,
sinks the eyes, wanes into an undisguised
Extinction. Dreams, Desires, Memories:
The oft-neglected holy trinity, of centuries