Life's Blueprint

The mountain stream racing along the 
steep flanks of granite that aeons of snowcap 
melt have etched inexorably into the 
mountainside continues to scour a trough 
as it empties its roiling contents along the 
raceway that took shape with the shrinkage 
and scraping of receding glaciers freeing
the landscape from its icy bondage when
verdant vegetation replaced the frozen
landscape of white and the world became
habitable for the resulting evolving biomass
roars and billows over the litter of massive
boulders along its track. In service to snow
capped mountains still seasonally releasing
their burden of snow and ice the ancient
ritual of clockwork-recurrent melt and 
runoff carves the great slabs of mountain 
sides into ever deeper canals prolonging 
the planet's life. The forceful roar of the falls 
feeding lakes and rivers, forests and streams 
a reminder that the process remains ever
faithful to nature's breathing blueprint.