Supreme Majesty

Nature, at her leisure between
episodic hurricanes, earthquakes,
floods, droughts, scorching fire
and tsunamis, teases her creatures
with far lesser but unerringly impressive
displays of casual pique and distemper,
as though to accustom us to the rarer,
extraordinarily brutal events
catastrophic in their impact. This
day has been one of high winds
scuttling dark clouds across the
vault of a sun-luminous sky. We
have experienced mega-bursts of
blasting wind, sudden sullen downpours,
dark skies fading to light, then probing
fingers of sun, zealous to flaunt their
magnificent warming power, as
opposed to the lightning that so
recently streaked the sky. We give
Nature her due, no match are we for
either her light theatrical pieces or the
darkly sinister drama of her seriously
staged displays of supreme majesty.