Everything Changes

Change Changes, and that will never change

There used to be an Old Man in New Hampshire,

Now it’s just the tree-covered side of a mountain.

There used to be a Wall in Arches,

Now it is two points without a middle.

There used to be a shallow cove, warm as bathwater

Where I once swam in Door County,

now with lake levels down it’s a marshy backwater.

Natural Bridge in Virginia used to be

a cavern before it collapsed.

Crater Lake used to be

a volcano caldera

which used to be the peak of a mountain until

Cataclysmic catastrophe.

Just like how marriage can become divorce

Just like how friends move apart

Just like how a river cuts into rock

We are, until

everything changes.