Frictional Forces

This poem was submitted as part of Catalyst’s 2020 Writing Contest. To view more submissions from the Writing Contest, please visit utcatalyst.org/writing-contest.

Something about a thunderstorm

the wetness settling the dust

Reminds me of the existence of an instant within destruction.

It tells me

Be the calmness among calamity

The water among rock

Though no matter its soothing nature,

still has destructive proclivities 

under certain circumstances. 

The difference is direction.