STRONG AS THE LANDSCAPE ITSELF

So many things and people around us

have achieved the impression of permanence

that we think they will last

(and that we will last with them)

on and on, that the future

will be just a repeat of the current.

We see the people and things around us 

- our lives' basic ingredients,

their centre pillars and barely noted certainties -

as strong as the landscape itself,

as certain to remain as the hills.

They will be there, like they always have.

All the time that they barely cling

to their ephemeral existence

in rushing time, in the

endless throw of the dice of fate.

Each day of boring sameness

a wonder saved from the tumult of a chaotic world.

23.08.2019