I wonder...

Do you wish
you'd not unleashed
your full tempest

Glassy flows
hardening scars
blackening

steam rising
at the confluence
of saltwater seas
     which soothe
            and cool

Maybe
you only needed
a receptive abyss

but it is
a mighty mass of molecules
     required to
         squelch your fury

you've destroyed
     so much beauty

yet
I return
in the aftermath
surveying the damage
seeking survivors

and wonder
if this silence
means
a lasting dormancy

that we might begin
a peaceful rebuilding