Walking the old graveyard
Green speckled lichen
Across the stone
A partnership
Fungus and Algae
Life in symbiosis
Where neither could alone
Life from Death?
The return to the earth continues
Stone becomes soil once again
The gentle chemistry
The patient work
Over so many years
Quiet, consistent
A long time from now
A child, running with her dog
Across this ground
Long after our buildings
And names
Are gone
The stone, now soil
Holds the dog's quick feet
And the laughing girl
As the cycle continues
