Force of Nature
2025-07-25John Mortola
AmazementReflection

Force of Nature

The water hurtling through space

Its power thus suspended

Caught in graceful animation

Flowing through air

Free of the bounds

Of its earthly rambling

The peaceful glide

Through trees and meadow

Disguising power concealed

Until this freeing fall revealed

The crushing energy

That surged and roiled beneath it.

Then flowing on

In peace restored

Toward life’s

Next great adventure.

Inspiration / Author Note

Sometimes we forget that everything has power. Often we underestimate the power that lies beneath a peaceful facade.