The Carbon Obelisk

It stands 52” inches high, with a circumference of 105.”  Formed of three monstrosities fused into one, its root structure radiates out beyond and below the limits of mankind’s reach.  Layers upon layers of roots the size of a grown men’s thighs are interwoven into a shielding barrier that is nigh impossible to break through.  If it has a taproot, it quite likely girdles the center of the earth. 

The goliath has separated two hatchets into its component pieces, jammed the chains of two chainsaws, and snapped the shaft of an axe below the head, claiming its life.  Chains cannot pull this beast down.  A truck cannot even make it shudder.  Once in its presence, it is as though the thundering drums of the 2001 Space Odyssey rumble within the beholder’s mind.

But we will not surrender.  We will defeat this opponent through endurance, perseverance, and unfaltering stubbornness.  Its collective masses may bear a totality of two centuries or more.  It may know this land better than us.  It may harbor the strength of a thousand sequoias within the bowels of the earth.  But we will cut the arteries from this foul beast and isolate it from its reinforcements.  For every vein we gouge, it notices;  for every root we severe, it weakens. 

Yet it will feign to be undaunted, and so must we.  In our ignorance we have lost battle after battle, unaware of the war that has begun.  But I promise you, one day it will shudder.  One day it will bow beneath the pull of the chain.  One day its roots will give, and its taproot will be reveal to us.  And on that day, by Crum, we will drag the carbon obelisk from the pits of hell it clings to!