Volcano

See power rising in distant
sleeping majesty,
blanketed in
white cold linen.
A frame of tourquoise
and pink at end
of day illuminates
deceptively quiet strength.

Long ago purging
of deeply buried
energies create for
the eye far-reaching surface,
blending into fields of
green and brown,
testimonies to
earth's continuity.

Take then and draw the eye
to the landscape below
our towering selves,
the minutia beneath our feet.
Do not dismiss the small,
for in the deceptive simplicity
of the tiniest existence,
lies the beginning of the volcanic birth.