Across the savannah of time
Waving grasses
Isolated trees
So much sky
There are herds roaming
From watering hole
To watering hole
There is the pride that lounges
Rising to stalk when hungry
Sun rises and sets and rises again
Stars move through their patterns in the night
At dusk and dawn
The melody of sunlight
The rhythm of constellations
Eons in minutes
The story told of all that life is
In the eyes of a lion
In the eyes of the antelope
In the flight of birds
And the whisper of grass moved
To dance by the wind
Across the savannah of time
Populations rise and set and rise
Inexorable setting sun
Imperative rising dawn
We sing to mourn the fall of light
We sing to celebrate illumination
We sing life awake
We sing death to sleep
We sing because we cannot stop
We sing in every movement
This song of existence
In every breath
Sung
The eyes of a lion
Looking out across the savannah
No time eternal
Forever fleeting
