I Am Time Eternal

Life-giving sun burns with passion, energy, and rage

Untamable and unquenchable, fighting its way through the mist.

Guiding stars light the way with their joyous fire

Dancing though the night, glistening with the hope of a child.

Romantic moon, radiating with a comforting glow

Fading away and returning to sight, but always present.

Guardian mountains silently stand sentinel over the earth

Monolithic protectors, everlasting beacons of stability and awe.

Fragrant flowers blanket peaceful meadows and color the terrain

Rolling hills, endless prairies, and sacred groves cradle their delicate frames.

Temperamental oceans crash on pure sandy shores

Gentle caresses and torrential wrath displayed in powerful waves.

Homely cities stand with their sky-reaching buildings towering over the land

Gleaming with dazzling lights proudly displayed at night.

Crumbling, destroyed, decaying towers; shattered pieces of broken light

Impenetrable fortresses felled and even glorious monuments failed to stand.

Living things have long since made the docile waters their graves

Pollution poisons the feeble oceans and kills innocents by the scores.

Corpses of orchids and daffodils alone stake claims

 Trampled, scorched, and salted is the once lush plain.

Unstable ground quakes, cracks, and opens its voracious jaw

Completely consumed are the silent guards, no longer of any worth.

Dead to the world, the shaded moon is spent

All that has become of love is woe.

Tethered became the now gloomy stars turned mild

Leaders no more, frozen spirits waiting to expire.

Lively flames have been extinguished, no longer desiring to exist.

Everything has perished, and so ends another age.

My sins will never be gone.

I walk on.