New Poem.....

Natures Prayer


Sitting on the fence watching the heat radiate off the hay fields.
My thoughts as distorted as the evaporating moisture of that July day.
Clouds caused dark images to float across the land like a kaleidoscope
All of this sensory stimulation is making it so easy to lose myself in daydreams.

A mosquito bite snapped me out of midday slumber. I looked at the spot it left.
Something so small, with such an impact, much like us in the universe.
Do we really realize how significant we are on our little planet?
The things we do, the reactions they bring, how unappreciative it appears.

We need to reverse our actions or find ourselves with a bitter mother nature.
Looking out over the fields I search my memories of childhood and remember.
When did we lose ourselves inwardly and become absorbed in ourselves?
Selfish we became many of us, while others were shouting from their souls.

Is it too late for us to heed the call and begin to preserve our surroundings?
A constant reminder this should be on how really frail so many things are.
Appreciation is a word that seems to have floated off into dead space.
This space is one we will have to inhabit if we do not learn to be thankful.