Emergence

                Chattering cicadas
                Glorying in their numbers
                Overwhelming everything
Til even the most voracious predators
                                Can't eat another crunchy bite.
        Still they come, crashing like buzzing cascades
            Over the tired, beaten land.
                Their compound eyes looking forward, never back
At the desolation they've left behind.
    Secure in their majority, never knowing
            That glory is fleeting, and huge numbers divide.
                Soon their lifeless husks will fall
                Amply fertilizing the next generation
                Of what they tried to consume.