Finding Balance

There’s a path through the trees

Winding along a route

Ancients once traveled,

A well known trail

Written on walls and engrained

In mind’s

Passed by word of mouth

And swirling through a town-

A path to a secret place

No longer secret,

Where hopes come true

And wishes are granted

With a flick of nature’s hand-

Manifestation’s birth,

The beginning of a train of thought

A train of belief

Once overlooked

But now reawakening

With the once sleeping soul

Of Mother Nature-

As her followers realize there’s more

To the day than clocking in

And clocking out-

No longer mindless spudder

Set to lift others only

And wallow in deprivation-

A new form taken

As dreams are chased

And mind’s health is prioritized,

Living in harmony with an earth

Gaining health-

Because of a new system

Set on following an ancient path

That ancestors thought was savage-

The true civilization

The one that brings hope and peace-

Living hand-in-hand

With our Mother Nature.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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