Nature's Challenge

They are nature's maledictions
upon all things living and
vulnerable to the miseries
brought by seasonal climatic
pressures. The collaboration
between Arctic chill and
bitterly blasting icy winds
send the unmistakable message
of nature's supreme domination
over all that presumes to exist,
albeit by her very own clever
design. She stages these
intermittent events to challenge
a pervasive arrogance among her 
less docile creatures presumptuous 
in their misapprehension of belief
that they are entitled to the
blissful assurance of existence.