Elements

  Fire, wind, ground and water: we
  have thrived on these, would hold and harness these.
   
  Science, passion, faith, philosophy:
  we turn to these and would depend on these
   
  to understand small sparks, short gusts, the mist
  and dust of east and west, of north and south;
   
  we cling, we clutch and to the death defend
  the corners of existence of and in

  a universe we cannot comprehend,
  nor are these elements we can control,
   
  the warmth, the breath, the earth, the very blood,
  of fire and wind, of ground and water: we,
   
  for all we grasp, remain beholden to
  the God of time and space and land and sea.