Acquiescence

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” Confucius

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Roaring in
the chest of the wave
slams the massive boulder

the great stone rocks back
undetectably

with a deep thud
more felt than heard
it bumps solid
against smaller boulders
to which it crowds

as the spent wave recedes
the hulking mass settles again
immovable as bedrock
defying the next swell
and the next
and the next

each time it rocks back
with a subtle thud

and the sea is patient

in the ebb and flow of time
this steadfast giant
and its lesser neighbors
will reluctantly
imperceptibly
acquiesce

to become the grains
of ocean floor
upon which they now rest

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rob kistner © 2022

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18 thoughts on “Acquiescence”

  1. As ever, Mother Nature has infinitely more patience than her children, on a time frame we cannot even fathom. Perhaps this is the deeper wisdom than that our minuscule and frenetic life spans elicit.

  2. Lovely, bang on. Thus the formation of sea stacks. Your quote is so Zen, so subtle. Unfortunately, we have filled the ocean with plastics, choking and battering it.

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