Nature’s vague swipe at Irony

Pandora’s box was opened long ago

but Machine had eroded all hope.

Paradise lost to fire-mushrooms

Darwin’s monkeys virtually extinct

living like moles deep underground

tunneling toward the brink.

When all was lost

and matter went back to chaos.

From high Empyrean came forth

The Hammer of the Gods;

Nemesis, riding a falling star

brought forth the heavenly fire.

A divine wind bellowing

in her blazing skirt.

Clouds became as brightly lit stone,

as she fell with steaming vengeance

upon a cindered Earth.

And when at last, the light had faded

from the world…

Time

found itself free and unhindered.

© P. Williams 2003