On the Porch With Mother Earth

Look upon these skies
see the blue
watch the clouds
bellow with the wind…
Feel the earth
beneath your feet
solid and true…
walk with these trees
feel them breath in
what you breath out.

Man is but a flicker
in the cycle of life
yet
we have dominion
over it all…
Our power can preserve
or destroy
with whim or folly.

Listen to the birds
and squirrels
frolic in the rain
or hide beneath the leaf
of a great old oak.

Thunder rolls
and lightening
pierces the horizon
with jagged bolts
                      of unharnessed glory.

                     What a wonder
                     this place
             we call home.
                        Mother Earth.