The instantly recognisable
Flat top of Table Mountain
Today under horsetail sunset skies
Became that way by
Once upon a time being
Millions and zillions of tons
Of stone and sand
That compacted over millions of years
And then was eroded
By water, ice, stone, fire and by the sun
And was torn as it was tanned
For millions and millions of years more
Not mentioning of course
A bolted horse
Departed
The Big Bang
From which it all started
Or not
Some think we
And it
Might be nothing
But binary
Soulless code being executed in a soulless machine
Ones and zeroes
Or some exotic quantum compute variant
Hitherto unknown
All of it and all of us
Humming along electrically
Bzzzt
