Earth

Soil- beneath our feet, the ground on which we stand. Pulverized rock and organic matter- a rich humus. Fertile catalyst, womb for seed- for sprouting, thus growth. Necessary yet turbulent too, unstable, seismic, volcanic. This mantel, this crust, our Earth is a covering- for shifting plates and fault lines. And sometimes there comes a spewing of magma- molten fire ever changing, solid or quaking viable or barren fickle as quicksand's enveloping quagmire. So much like- human temperament.