Chemistry Window

Context: In Chemistry class I very consistently become bored. Rather than sleeping or texting or what have you as most of the other kids do, I try to use this time to be constructive. I write a lot, I study for other classes, and think. I sit right by the window and one day I decided I should write. Initially, it was going to be about the incredible beauty but when I really looked I saw how horribly ugly this view I had was.

Looking out I realize the vast chaotic nature of nature. Perhaps all that holds still is only waiting to change. An old, venerable tree diminished to just a pile of upstanding twigs. Evergreen bushes joyously sprouting out of what's left of the ground. Snows dotting the bushes, unmoving, but waiting to drop. Snow piled off of the spotless road, melting into a mass of dirt and stone. A boundless wall of glass held up by nothing but brick and the Earth itself stands proudly against nature. Its coupled by a few blocks of metal used to catapult us from place to place, desecrating Mother Earth with every turn of the wheel. Coughing out massive plumes of smoke and foggy stupidity. Hanging adamantly above this disgusting pile of steel is an old decrepyt bird feeder. Welcoming nature to the land of man. You are welcome nature! We stomp on you and we build over you but we welcome you to this world we've made. It's a nice world, we live happily. But stay on your side of the road and we'll stay on ours. For now.