Beauty and Terror
All that is can error
That which captivates most
May bring terror
Wood wrapped in incandescent flames
Reminiscent of
Your Father’s name
Removed from willful refrain
Yellow may devour
Energy unrestrained
Fire, you’re beauty and terror
All that is can error
That which captivates most
May bring terror
Peaks piercing air
A sight so majestic –
Stirring passion and prayer
The heart-stopping giants
May storm lava and ash
streaming defiant
Mountains, you’re beauty and terror
All that is can error
That which captivates most
May bring terror
A rumbling palette of blue
rousing and soothing
Swells vast, unique – forever renewed
The steady cool may lap violent
Reminding those of their place
Leaving everything silent
Sea, you’re beauty and terror
All that is can error
That which captivates most
May bring terror
All that is will return
to perfect beauty for glory
for this we securely yearn
Someday we’ll witness a land
Teeming of rest
Both lion and lamb
that which captivates most
forever freed from terror
“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?”-Isaiah 40:12
Reflections of Terror and Beauty 