Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Nature's Epic Tantrums

Derna, Libya, on Wednesday. The city was split in half by floodwaters, complicating rescue efforts.

There is nothing subtle about the message

when Nature succumbs to one of her epic rages

momentarily setting aside her preeminent role

as creatrix in favour of wholesale destruction

unleashing her elements upon an unready world.

Earth wobbles on its axis as its tectonic plates

answer to disorderly conduction of energy and

volcanoes vomit eruptions of molten inner core

and wildfires ravenously consume forests from

one continent to another. Hurricanes blast their

ferocious entry disrupting oceans' aquatic life.

Floodplains are engulfed creating watery graves

for residents of towns and villages swept away

with their flimsy homes and mudslides destroy

mountainside dwellings destroying animal life

as a great stench of death poisons the atmosphere.

Nature's occasional breaks from nurturing her vast

creations in favour of discarding excess existence.



No comments: