Puissant Nature

Tumbling down and over the 
mountainside in ceaseless motion
the roaring stream foams, fizzes and 
swirls in eddies about and around
granite obstacles whose own
slides from their mountain perch
above the alpine inspired by rain
sleet, wind and snow are merely
temporary restraints for though they
may have slid thudding down the
mountain a hundred, a thousand
years ago, they are incidental, the
stream itself timeless as it steadily
washes its noisy, tumultuous journey
furiously descending, sweeping all
in its path with the persuasion of
inexorable power in the fullness
of time, its journey brooking no
resistance as its bright silver ribbon
of froth descends under a watchful
sky, acceding to nature's order.