Sublime Forces Of Nature

The soil is trembling; mountains throw up high a rain of fire

Old gorges crumble down and swallow entire rivers,

A huge glacier collapses, water floods the unbothered valleys

The wheel of change is led by no hand dire

Impassively the high cliff waits to be removed of its regal cape

When mountains rise then time decides that others must also lose their crown

The desert waits to be reborn when rains again feed its forgotten sands

The proudest sea gets dry and dies, its bottom becomes a green prairie land

As nature proceeds we behold without speech, frozen by sight

And try to make sense of it all

Becoming aware that we live under its command,

We name it our goddess with fear