Soft As Stone

Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022

These vast valleys of gold

Sparsely dusted

Pockets of green unfold

Silvery leaves and blues of the sky

Along sandy earth

Reds and yellows opening to time,

So soft and so hard

Rocks become mirrors of sweet velvety plants

Perfectly fallen

Not a grain out of proportion,

This natural mystery

Without human inconsistency

Calls me to a place and a way

Intrinsically.

-Abdus Salaam