Sandbags

Photo by Ochoin Deach
From theminiaturespage.com

the thing about water
it laughs at obstruction
it goes where it chooses
whenever it chooses
fills hollows and voids
washes sinners and saints
pushes under and over
around and straight through
all attempts to restrain it
all it wants for is time
it can outwait the outermost
limits of creatural patience
its memory reaches the
asteroid ice of its embryo
stage now mature it has
learned to create and destroy
cold detached equanimity
flows from its matrix
of molecules knowing
it has all the power that
men and their monuments
dream they possess so the
next time you contemplate
sandbags against flooding
seas keep your eye peeled
for paths of retreat to high
ground where precarious
moments of peace can be
useful to prayer and allow
you to learn how to swim