In today's world people like to believe that the past world was isolated and local minded
Events happened globally even still, from earthquakes to tsunami to famine to drought
Proof of this can be found in the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920, or Krakatoa's epic eruption
It is true to say we exist in a world that can only be partially viewed, we are nearsighted
Preferring normal or safe, the unusual experiences come from a perspective of great doubt
Artist Edvard Munch captured red skies influenced by the eruption and its destruction
Whatever happens globally, in the present, happens to everyone and everything
We feel immune but are not as an interconnected world is most easily disrupted
From more and smaller things, as increasingly the consequences are sweeping
Perhaps, sadly the more entwined our world becomes, we will together sing
A funeral dirge, an anthem to the lost, and dismay over the future dying
“The explosion itself was terrific, a monstrous thing that still attracts an endless procession of superlatives. It was the greatest detonation, the loudest sound, the most devastating volcanic event in modern recorded human history, and it killed more than thirty-six thousand people.” Simon Winchester, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
