Outburst

A minuscule crack in a prism of heat,
snaking along the unyielding gray of stone
One instance of catharsis from millennia of emotion,
insidiously kept under a hood of strength
of uncompromising stone
A crevice that seeks respite from the breeze--
the cool, refreshing squalls that blow
at towering heights, miles above the horizon
Simmering down, like drops of icy water
falling over the flickering flames of a bonfire--
not enough to extinguish, but enough to appease,
an effect similar to the soft, pirouetting breeze

Longing for the chill that abates the heat
kept under a helmet of shining armor,
its fissure widens, letting out sparks of golden
that crackle into the tranquility of solitude
encircling a rising prism of silvered stone
It widens some more, revealing streams of fury
bubbling beneath a countenance of composure,
a terrifying red, deepening steadily--
a slough of sizzling, molten rock
formed after centuries of oppression, of force,
of the unrelenting fingers of mother nature

Arising in rivulets of smoke, fiery clouds
darkening into a funnel that stems from the crevice
that broadens inexorably, breathing heavily
releasing an eternity of emotional suppression,
finally erupting into a flurry of fire,
ridding itself of an existence of a dead silence,
expressing its wrath, billowing in torrents of ferocity,
making history
as the largest volcanic eruption
the earth has ever seen