joys of spring

JOYS OF SPRING

Closer the rays that warm our ways
The light of our star extending the day
Enabling nature its annual rite to undertake
Rejuvenation, new growth, an awakening landscape.

This age old process too
Affecting creatures large and small
Who share this planet's space
Encouraging the formation of new life
Attempting to insure thus
The continuation of all species
Known to us.

Us, are We, the human life forms
Builders of civilizations, destroyers of same;
Innovators, inventors, discoverers
Erratic, self destructive
Sometimes good, often bad
Endowed with measure of growing intelligence
Beginning to awaken, to reach out
Beyond our bounds of gravity.

Each human life an amazing complex organism
Far more so than we have
Up to now been able to understand
A heart we have that pumps
A brain we have that sorts and interprets
Some say we also have a heart that feels
Some say we also have a brain, a mind, a conscience
Some even say we have a soul whatever one makes that out to be.

Perhaps most of us do not quite understand ourselves
Oft we are at odds with Nature's way
Instead of living in peaceful harmony
Yet most of us do comprehend
The feeling of joy,
The spirit of renewal,
The inner awakening
That arrive with our seasonal rites of Spring.

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