Krakatoa

Krakatoa, you've changed your ways from evil days

Oh, I know a once-violent isle and gentle smile

When the dust and lava cooled

You were sterile as the rock from which the Earth was tooled

Was man's beginning a wind-borne spore to fly no more?

Nature's winning her docile spree has set her free

Seeds were wafted on the wind

Forming heavy undergrowth for species winged and finned

Tangled mangles rebuilt your soil from age, dead toil

Sheltered bay coves protecting life from Satan's knife

Grow and island in the sun

Where the hell fire-belching Earth had destructively left none