OLDER THAN DIRT

What is older than dirt?
A rock is, you might blurt!
But rock and dirt are just phases,
All the same, between their spaces.

The dirt says, “Oh Mr. Rock,
How do you not run amok?
How do you hold it together?
In all of this foul weather?”

The rock replies, “Oh, silly dirt,
To whom do you think to assert?
As you are now I have been
And gradually become, once again.”

Thus they yearn to trade places.
A stand off despite their ages.
Each in a cycle of their own,
Yearning for a point both call home.

By cindy
1/11/2020