More about stars....

I wrote this poem ages ago, but it was along the same train of thought as my recent post about stars... I thought I'd share it. I called it "Mighty Rock":

Mighty Rock

Tall Rock,
Mighty Rock,
You will live forever.
Fixed in place,
Never changing,
Granite god.

Dark glass,
Hidden lifetime,
Underneath the stars.
Born among the heat and torture,
Of Earth and Moon and Mars.

Tall Rock,
Mighty Rock,
In your gaze I quiver,
You will one day be dust too,
Silt within the river.

© Mark Simpson.
March 98