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 A seagull takes flight by the water Flapping it's wings, against the air Air pressure drops off in the distance Setting loose hurricanes elsewhere