Peaks

Peaks

Men in the valley

stack pillars 

of pebbles,

and grains of sand 

into cones,

amid the mountains.

The terrain

seems unaltered,

and always returning

to smooth

from rain and wind;

Until some rocks,

alter the flow 

of a flood,

to collect the silt

of a new island.

Inspired,

men in the valley,

climb

to leave stones

on the apexes,

leaving them taller.

-Robert L Jackson III