this word echoes in her mind
and even though she understands how like you she is
she sees you fall in grains and granules through her fingers
a river unmade and falling apart
stones that gurgle with hot sun in their throats
you are gone
she places her hand into the caverns you built.
pressing down as if to recapture the Richter scale
of what she used to know
but this land mass does not remember how it formed
how it eroded so fast
how millions of years blinked by in each moment.
and even though she understands how like you she is
she sees you fall in grains and granules through her fingers
a river unmade and falling apart
stones that gurgle with hot sun in their throats
you are gone
she places her hand into the caverns you built.
pressing down as if to recapture the Richter scale
of what she used to know
but this land mass does not remember how it formed
how it eroded so fast
how millions of years blinked by in each moment.