Slow-burn lava streams
simmer and flow underground,
wanting to erupt.
Flares surface when freed,
minor to significant,
still devastating.
Scarring recovery
works slowly or not at all,
with no guarantees.
Lives build atop threats,
smoldering, latent, hidden,
destabilizing.
Lurking opponents
testing one’s resilience
exhaust energy.
Even when accessed,
resistance and defiance
may fail in the end.
Hope ever lingers,
detecting new crevices
in which to survive.
simmer and flow underground,
wanting to erupt.
Flares surface when freed,
minor to significant,
still devastating.
Scarring recovery
works slowly or not at all,
with no guarantees.
Lives build atop threats,
smoldering, latent, hidden,
destabilizing.
Lurking opponents
testing one’s resilience
exhaust energy.
Even when accessed,
resistance and defiance
may fail in the end.
Hope ever lingers,
detecting new crevices
in which to survive.
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Photo credit:
By Ekrem Canli - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61637790
This poem was inspired by a NOVA special about volcanoes in Hawaii. As they were describing the process, I thought, that describes the MS process. Hence, the poem.
https://www.pbshawaii.org/tag/kilauea-volcano/
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