Love Poem: Chitted By Time

Chitted By Time

Rock stood
silent above the oceans fray
gray speckled and chitted 
by time
by sea salted air 
by shells air dropped by the gulls

Winds swept over it
rains drench it
sun beat kindly
and unkindly upon it

Families visited 
rested on it
…their voices and laughter filling the spaces ...floating 
on the crested breezes
and then were gone again

Ants would come and ants would go 

Spritely green grass grew up beside it...bleached 
in the summer sun to blond 
died off again with the chills of fall

Rock remained
never coming 
never going 
always there 
...to be found