The Mountains, They Said

The mountains, they said
Let us consider this
This pathetic man, so small, so frail
So weak, so afraid

The mountains, they said
Let us crush him
With a hail of ice, barrage of stone
Pulverized
Never to be found

To the mountains, the ocean said
I have watched this man resting by the river of peace
I will open the mouth of the river and swallow him
Whole

Casting him against your cliffs
Dragging him down to my dark depths
Utterly destroyed
Detritus of flesh
Down to the abyss, where
Even the light dare not go

Then the earth, it said
What a wretched worm, this man
I will open my bosom
Growing wider and deeper
Causing him to fall into black
Back into the womb of the world

As if he had never been born
Forgotten and alone
Amongst all that rots and decays
Stillbirth of eternity past
Closing the gaping chasm above
As he falls
Forever

The mountains, they said
Let us crush him
The ocean, she said
I will engulf him

The earth, it said
I will bury him
Never to see
Never to breathe
Never to feel
The light
Forever
In dark

Suffocating
Drowning
Crushed
Entombed
Gone