Sunday, August 27, 2023

Molten Inferno

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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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