I Am a Rock

I am a wanderer, I only travel lightly.

I’m never in the same place as I was the day before.

I live with my brothers, the stones beneath your feet.

Never sedentary, we breathe the air you breathe.

I’m from very far away.

No space, no sight, no sound.

The loneliest of lonely things,

I have to form the ground.

My body is a tempest, my stomach is the sea.

I laugh at all the glaciers, you cannot fathom me.

I am metamorphosis, the first and the last!

I was here before you, I’ll be here till the end.

I am liquid fire, I’m a million years.

I part the waves, and shake the ground,

I cause the land to quake.

The heat of the earth is my mother,

She lives under the sea.

She keeps me warm.