Pebbles of Life

                         Pebbles of Life

Pebbles thrown into the ever changing ocean of creation
Make tiny ripples moving outward on its surface.
On and on through time they move and add and add
Till mighty waves crash against the hard black rock
Of certainty, domination, and indifference
To wear it into soft sand at the waters edge.
There little children splash their afternoon
In the final lapping ripples of great waters.
The children make their castles in the sand.
They fill their empty buckets with sand and water and pebbles;
They throw some pebbles that they find that afternoon
To make new ripples.

© David W. Oliver January 26, 2008