A Grain of Sand

one kernel at a time drops

falling with precision
into the bottom chamber
and days
perhaps years
maybe centuries
pass by unnoticed in
universal time...
moments become decades
decades become millennia
and we decay in to sand
and are added to the glass
when upside down it becomes;
sand shift starboard
and back to the port and
oftentimes returns
but never disappears as
it increases over time
and above all else
our purpose diminishes
humbled by our
insignificance...

11 August 2020