Butterfly Effect - Assemblage 23

A ripple rolls across the water

The water carves into the stone

The stone erodes into a valley

No process ever acts alone

Not for long

The match head strikes against the paper

The paper sets the wood alight

The fire spreads throughout the forest

Illuminating half the sky

No man’s an island

Driven mad by silence

So why do I feel such a disconnect?

I’m reaching out now

In the only way I know how

Stranded in this Butterfly Effect

A block of ice falls off a glacier

And tears a passing tanker’s hull

The oil spills out into the ocean

An entire ecosystem nulled

No man’s an island

Driven mad by silence

So why do I feel such a disconnect?

I’m reaching out now

In the only way I know how

Stranded in this Butterfly Effect

A seagull takes flight by the water

Flapping its wings, against the air

Air pressure drops off in the distance

Setting loose hurricanes elsewhere

No man’s an island

Driven mad by silence

So why do I feel such a disconnect?

I’m reaching out now

In the only way I know how

Stranded in this Butterfly Effect