It's contemplation.

It's a demonstration of the arrogance of man that he thinks he has dominion over nature.

It's the beauty of the other side, of what was within being revealed.

It's the slow entropy of decay which we are all subject to.

It's realising the emperor is in the nip.

Above all, it's about the transience of absolutely everything.

I can hear that as the lyrics to some kind of 'neo-pagan gangsta-rap' hybrid. I reckon all us melancholic Mad Max wannabe's aught to form a 'dereliction club' - it works for me anyway!