11-04-2024, 05:40 AM
Vesuvius
There are no natural disasters,
no catastrophes without
living people present, not to witness
(hearers of that philosophic falling tree)
but as humans do, to suffer.
And when those throes have passed
quick or slow, burning or suffocation,
their legacies of ashen molds
are grace-notes, patient decorations
to their parting cataclysmic woe.
There are no natural disasters,
no catastrophes without
living people present, not to witness
(hearers of that philosophic falling tree)
but as humans do, to suffer.
And when those throes have passed
quick or slow, burning or suffocation,
their legacies of ashen molds
are grace-notes, patient decorations
to their parting cataclysmic woe.
Non-practicing atheist