Raw power is its own authority, immune
and insensate it compels and overwhelms.
These elements of nature's elements intrude
where they may, spontaneous, unexpected and
deadly to all in their path, grim outcomes for
the unfortunates caught in the ferocity of power
unrestrained by puny humanity. Wildfires that
suddenly erupt sparked by fire from above in
a dry atmosphere of abnormal summer heat
whipped by intransigent winds, the dread fires
rage and leap across the landscape, scorch
the forest canopy, delve beneath the soil to burn
underground, held in abeyance only by the granite
slopes of nearby mountains yet airborne sparks
alight further afield creating new unstoppable
infernos that swiftly approach settlements and
humanity joins the beasts of the forest in their
frantic race against encroaching flames for the
fires are unappeasable, answerable to no force
but their own rapacious appetite for destruction.
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