Regeneration

The ancient granite of the mountains
aeons ago cleft by the irresistible
passage of spring snow-melt and
seasonal rains took occasion to shed
their outer mantle, unstable and loosed
by the elements, tumbling to the
valleys below lining streambeds with
boulders the heights discarded, now
to guide meltwater over their rugged
confines in great bursts and bellows
of raging torrents irrepressible in
their passage, hurtling their way
downstream, gathering the loose
detritus of the mountains, sweeping
the slopes clean to deposit torn
bracken and branches, rocks and
earthworks in a massive movement
of matter re-distributed in nature's
endless transition of waste recycled
to her reborn purpose of regeneration.