The Crystal Stream

Streaming, feverishly racing
down the mountain slope
the steady crystal stream
thunders through primordial
crevices its might had long
ago etched within the granite
surface creating the runway
that the imperious runoff
everlastingly travels in an
ancient rote of replenishment
for the landscape below the
mountains where the summits
rear their peaks to snag
passing clouds, to arrest them
and puncture them, releasing
their immeasurable bounty
of rain to wash the mountain
and irrigate the soil below, in
an endless stream of timeless
renewal, the ineffable symbiosis
of elemental existence.