Yours For The Taking

All of nature glimmers and gleams in the distance

Blooming unafraid of what’s to come

Changes in the seasons bother her not

Death and life and rebirth all eclipse each other

Every moment is the ending of life, the beginning of death

Forever it’s been this way

Gardens know this universal law

How could they not?

I am privy to the secret

Just as you too could be

Knowledge is here in the soft loamy earth beneath your bare feet

Lest you think for a moment that you are somehow above it

Mortal is your blood, rich is your capacity to understand

Nothing stands between the wild whipping winds and your flesh

Only sink your fingers, your tongue, your teeth, into the natural elements

Perhaps then you will intuit exactly what I mean

Quaint are the flora and fauna of vibrant, splendid nature

Rugged and feral are the edge cases that beckon and tempt you

Sweet is the fruit upon the forbidden branch which the serpent lures you towards

Taste it, because to taste it is to know the body you inhabit, the world you traverse

Underneath it all, I know, is the desire, the lust, the heavy weight

Virginal and chaste, you’ve only ever known one path, one beacon of light

What if there was something more in that great wide world for you?

Xylems passively transport water and minerals to make this vivid verdant life possible

You could perhaps be just as radiant, just as resplendent

Zenith of existence, the peak of bliss, if only you are brave enough to take it with your own two hands