Sometimes deep thoughts spring to mind on a nature walk. A sapling growing in a dead driftwood pile got me thinking about life growing out of death. Leave room for pondering on your walks. #16 of NaPoWriMo2024.
Life after Death by Chaos Design
The universe is made to churn
Berry bushes from ashes
Mineral rich volcanic earth feed sheep
Trees growing from fallen nurse logs.
New life springs from destruction
for new life needs room and rot.
The four eroding elements
wind, water, fire, ice
clearing the way
toppling, leveling
creating building blocks.
Earth came from destruction
was made better when the moon
coalesced from debris
and clung to the big blue marble
Orbiting, stabilizing
and yet
is moving away,
leaving us,
for there is no constant.
Out of chaos
comes opportunity
Sentient life came from opportunity
adaptation.
We are smaller than grains of sand
perched precariously on a rock spinning just so
in a vast sea of chaos.
We live like the spring wildflowers
poking up from leaf litter and snow melt
careful not to get caught up
in our own god complex
thinking we are anything but a gain
tossed in the winds of construction and destruction.
CreatetheDawn 