Slow time still flows
By night
The patient stars align
Their sigils constant, their patterns known

They draw ripples 'cross the stone
Fifty million years wide
A molten tide
Hills rise up, hills erode

I see your face made strange
Pain accrued in substrate waves
That on your brow broke
Like subduction; like undertow

Your world quakes, your world erodes
And as the dawn breaks
In shadow I wait
For your shape to be exposed

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