“deep time”

A million years generationally
is roughly 50 thousand generations…
hot ‘n tots would say “many”… and
bible freaks would say, “Not!”
Seemingly this is a long long time and
from a child’s viewpoint maybe so.
But the terrain of the earth thinks otherwise
having recyled itself quite a lot.
Crustally thinking everything’s pretty new,
in spread, crush, fault and weld.
4 times 10 to the sixth: a small picture really.
our million is only an eyeblink in the slurry
of terranes, plates, volcanic inserting, salt domes.
I like the view from here, swimming in “deep time”,
I can compass my unconscious and resume
being at one with the earth.

(terrane – a block of terrain resting on magma)