Tomorrow in a Year

An intersection of the plain

By the bank of some great stream

The animal carcasses

And skeletons would be entombed

Tomorrow in a year

Tomorrow in a million years

Tomorrow in a year

Ages resting inside the rings of a tree

Fossils in lay in slate

Marking the old forest’s edge

I’ve stood on a mountain

Dividing three regions

Then it was just a pebble

That I held inside my hand

In between each flap (Mountains fossils)

Of a butterfly’s wings (Mountains fossils)

Countless changes (Mountains fossils)

That have gone on unnoticed (Mountains fossils)

A cricket rubs it’s forewings (Mountains fossils)

Together and I am forced (Mountains fossils)

To think of the time that it’s taken (Mountains fossils)

To build (Mountains fossils)

Larva lava, Larva lava, Larva lava, Larva lava

As Algae moves through water

Cupping the soil

Ages move across epochs

Within my hands

There’s grandeur in this view

It teams with life

A constant succession

These endless forms

My heart beats 70

Times per minute

Larva lava, Larva lava, Larva lava, Larva lava

Stretching out over years

A wilderness

Layer on layer life embedded in stone

Stretching out before me

A wilderness