What of significance?

What of significance?

Why should we care

What we do,

Who we are

Or what legacy

We may leave.

When it can take

A million years

To form an Island.

Rising from nothing

Out of the sea,

A volcano,

Thrusting skyward,

Bursting into existence,

Announcing itself,

Demanding to be noticed,

White hot and avaricious

Greedy for life

And oxygen.

Suffocating all

That stands in its way,

Before tiring

Of the ease

With which,

Once it tried,

It gained a foothold

In the world.

Nothing can prevent it

No sacrifice

Will stay its course

There is no victory

No defence

And so,

Insouciant,

It sleeps.

Cooling for a while

Collecting itself

Preparing for a return

In its own good time.

It barely simmers,

Suppressing rage

Deep within

Its fiery chambers,

Power unimagined

Untamed creation

A wonder of

Ordered chaos,

Benign destruction,

And with little ceremony

Or by your leave

It will forever

Leave its mark,

Indelible

Eternal.

It has significance,

And puts the

Affairs of man

Into proper perspective.