every wildfire was once just a spark
every glacier was once just a droplet
every marble was once just sand
  
that is to say:
it is the wind that made a wildfire of a spark
it is the cold that made a glacier of a droplet
it is the pressure of the earth that made marble of sand
 
that is to say:
it is the world that turned something innocent
   something small and sweet
   something soft and quiet and beautiful
and turned it into something hard and deadly and frightening
 
that is to say:
we have only ourselves to blame
for the monsters
that haunt our footsteps