Splash - by Barry Mathias

Lake in Yellowhead Pass: D. Millar Silence returns with its eternal echo.

Ripples sweep the surface of the lake;
Soft mountains
Filling their own valleys,
Racing on a one-way journey
To the guarding shores.
Submerged now, the silver denizen,
Unaware in its watery world
Of the brief, beautiful imbalance
It created.
Life in movement
Now still
Now forgotten.

-- from Turning Pages, Seeking Sky: poetry by Friends in Canadian Yearly Meeting (1992).