Time

Only time is permanent.

Stones won’t last
nor monuments,

roads are changed
and buildings moved,

forests laid waste
and rivers dammed,

even matter and energy
change places.

Suns are born
and stars will die,

but only time remains alive.

Silhouettes

Tracings in the sand
lines on a canvas
smears around the clay
a few notes fill the air.

A monument materializes
a statement takes shape
a feeling is captured.

Spectators only guess
at the silhouettes
that crawled at birth.