Sinuous channels
   cut through the 
       river's muddy
               bottom,

 carrying clear water
    ever downward  
        - ever onward.

From fortress walls
    it's all been seen --
       drought and flood,
    but something always
        trickled through.

As it was before those
     stones were stacked.
 As it will be when the
      last rubble crumbles
         into uncut
              dust & rock.