Continental Drift -- A MrLaFazia.com Original -- First Presented July 9th, 2009
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The continents move all the time,
And are never truly still.
We feel and see their movement all the time,
When earthquakes rage and higher grows hill,
And the old volcanoes blow their tops,
And the cracks of doom pour forth their smoke,
And the the Earth does crack and groan.

Continental Drift reveals the rift,
Between land and land,
And sea and land,
And even sea and sea.

When land plates converge,
There will emerge,
A mountain of some form.
The thick plates rise up,
And push and bend,
And fold upon themselves,
Upended, lifted; glorified struggle.

At times land plates will diverge,
But don't sing a derge,
For new land is being formed there.

Where land and ocean meet,
They do compete,
If they are coming back together.
The ocean loses when they lock horns.
The crust subducts and melts;
Volcanoes are formed.

At times we see that land crust
Butts up against its denser cousin.
Oceanic crust and land may transform the coastline,
By moving past (it's a blast) very fast;
In a short time, then locking in again.
Stresses cause a slip-strike to release,
It's pent-up elastic potential energy,
As King Kinetic causes destruction and confusion.
Ah, that California coastline (to name one).

Another common tectonic play,
Shows two ocean plates running away
From each other, diverging slowly,
Where mid-ocean ridges are formed and growing.

This story really has no end,
And the beginning is not always clear.
But one thing's for sure, tho' we won't live to see,
Pangaea isn't the first and won't be the last
Supercontinent formed on this Earth...another's yet to be.