How salmon pelicans flap so slowly

In the sky

It looks as though they are falling

How thunder sounds like mountains cracking

Clean through

As though cleaved by an axe

How a butterfly in a jar beats itself to death

Against glass

With its the will to survive

How the ocean chews away at a beach

In a storm

Trying to swallow it whole

This is how I felt the day you kissed me

That first time

Whilst continents collided and stars fell