We re-arrange nature
for a very short time.
The tree re-occurs.
The wind replaces seed.
The waters over-run their banks
to reclaim the land once taken.

We try to replenish our stock
but to no lasting avail.
Nature accepts our intrusion,
absorbs our attempts at mastery
and advances the greater plan.

We can only watch, walk the path
and die. That is all we do.
This is all we are. All of us.