a higher worth.

solid mountainside
solid sedimentaries
solid high and wide
for centuries.

still older than these crystal forms
in existence when
by savage storm might show
what was then.

not to hold with timorous trembling hand
nor feel against your silken skin
not to see what was before there was land
to stand in.

away all forms on earth
and objects of this universe
before the first birth
to walk this earth.

not solid like the mountainside
nor possible to feel
not solid high or wide
yet more real.

and older than those crystal forms
in existence when
by savage storms might show
what was then.

there was before the earth
and after that had lead
towards a land of higher worth
to tread.

solid mountainside
solid sentimentaries
solid high and wide
for centuries.