Nature Shrugs

Define parasite. Earth perhaps did
not request of nature to be populated
by a host of organisms, creatures so
dependent on the resources so amenable
to adaptation in living communities of
creatures spread everywhere on her
mantle but her destiny has been realized
as a great habitat accommodating their 
presence. As a living presence itself, 
the globe tends on occasion to express 
itself through a variety of expressions
reflecting its sovereign agency in the
process of which its lodged creatures
find themselves alarmingly threatened
suddenly vulnerable to the excesses of
their home's natural elements at times
benign and occasionally maliciously
inclined. When earthquakes, tornadoes
wildfires, flooding, drought and
ferocious hurricanes, volcanic eruptions
and numbing cold temperatures arise
to abruptly raise alarm and arouse
acknowledgement of humankind's
tenuous links and clasps to a notoriously
indifferent and omnipotent presence
whose essence we attempt to grasp
through the credulous nature of science.