Changes Oft Come Slow
by Paul Hall, 20th of April, Tenant Creek, Australia.
Along heat's horizon, the jagged line is formed.
In the silence of the ages, the gentle slopes adorned
dressed in purple of the distance, they embrace a dusty sky.
With ease they could be scaled, thus not a one will try.
The clouds, they glide past overhead -- white clouds in the sky
from powder blue to dusty haze and violet passing by.
Tinged with slopes of purple-red from lava dust and shale
rise the jagged outlines from afar and very pale.
But will the clouds soon bring their rain to a gentle thirsty slope?
Only when there comes someone to distill a thing called hope.
For there is a petition given to mankind below
that can reach beyond the stars
though changes oft come slow.
Along heat's horizon...
Copyright (C) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
... the jagged line is formed.