Distant Thunder

 It

                               comes

                   quietly at first

                barely sensed in the

               darkening ocean of sky,

                 a predator stalking its prey,

                      just audible distant rumbles of energy,   

       foreboding gray waves of sound, enter ears and
    roll over and through one’s wakened consciousness,

       agitated electrons’ full bass exploding in deep

              resonant voice of nature’s power and

                 presence, demanding recognition

                    that dominion beyond man

                             continues to

                                 rule

      © William Vollrath, 2013

Lightning over Las Cruces, New Mexico
USAF photo by Edward Aspera, Jr.
from Wikimedia Commons