The Wurm Turns

And so, the wurm has turned within the crust of angered Mother Earth. The skies will weep, the oceans leap, a hurricane of terror bawls. We've torn flesh from her bones. And so, the wurm has turned within the hollow spaces gape, sore wounds, man kind and his hoard, dross.. succumb. Earth's breath, the wind, snaps at the trees, limbs and roots are torn asunder. And so, the wurm has turned within a parasitic dream unfolds. Who will devour, feed, free, destroy a quandary for the sentient? A dark outcome, long foretold and so, the wurm has turned within. Proverb is first recorded in John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs in the form: "Tread a woorme on the tayle and it must turne agayne." (Henry VI, part III).Shakespeare,"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on" The proverb means, 'even the most humble will strike back if abused enough', and certainly we are abusing Mother Earth. *wurm is also a double entendre for dragon of which some say the earth is merely the shell holding the Mother of all Dragons