Mother Nature's Gift

Clouds collide.
They rattle and shake
Rolling and tumbling across the sky.
A display of marvellous wonders.
At the beach, as mother's watch
huddled under shelter,
The sand spreads out
Under a dark, tumultuous sky.
When lightening strikes
A sculpture ruptures
God's glory is defined
In designs of pure glass
Created by a single burst
A cosmic thrust
The miracle of birth
Petrified lightning.

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/what-really-happens-when-li...
Incredibly, lightning can and does in fact create something amazing when it hits sand, but the conditions have to be perfect. When it hits a sandy beach high in silica or quartz and the temperature goes beyond 1800 degrees Celsius, the lighting can fuse the sand into silica glass. The blast of a billion Joules radiates through the ground making fulgurite–hollow, glass-lined tubes with a sandy outside. Petrified lightning.