Once the Domain of Birds

Beetles, most likely, felled the giant. A gruesome deterioration, of a quiet magnitude, ravaged inward. Until, in the cold night, root structure surrendered from hardened ground, to a misery of horizontal dust. And where once the domain of birds, was glorified above, now gives shelter to ants and grubs. Golden bark breathes no more. A deathly gray instead petrifies, the deceased former shade giver. And yet as cell churns to molecule, and molecule devolves its complexity, soil enriches. Earth becomes fertile. And the dust again gives way to life.