Chalk Dust

Chalk dust on the sidewalk
Next to the vote for me’s and interest meetings
To show you how impermanent you are
Like a snowflake or a hall
In the grandest sand castle on
The back of a million crushed stones
My heart isn’t nearly as hard as they were
Chalk dust for you to walk on
Maybe you’ll carry it with you
In your clothes or in your hair,
In your eyes, in your lungs, in your mind
Like words in the sand, “I love you,” “(Heart), (Your name),”
Or “well, nothing lasts forever,” or stays the same,
Especially with the tide coming in,
So I think I’ll sit and wait for the rain.