The Wrinkled Log

There it is, the orphan log,

Stone dead,

Waiting for the extinction,

Lying on the earth’s bed.

 

Got detached from the frame

Long ago,

None discerns that instant

Nor does anyone bother to.

 

Wrinkled it is more than before,

Each line does point toward time

And the recklessness

Of those partners in crime.

 

Couldn’t survive in complete form,

Yet keeps its wheel of struggle moving on

Letting the greatest beings know

Of what they have done!

 

The miserable log can scarcely fight

Against nature that it’s a part of,

The malicious bugs and the mystic air conspire

 And the log waits for a message as the rain falls from above.

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