Unspoken

Twilight fades and shades the faces

of outcropping desert rocks,

as another purple dusk

climbs over this sandstone ridge.

The mind cannot comprehend

the slow passage of time here.

But the memory of rock

spans millenniums.

Waiting in this vast desert,

listening for God's voice,

I will always remember

the density of the silence.

And in that moment,

the silent praise

I gave for these gifts

unspoken.

©  2013  Richard Havenga

Photo Location: Canyonlands National Park,  (Canyonlands)  Utah