Instinct

I am lost
Trees are all around
I am laid here bare
Along with all these sounds

I hear them
The chirping in the trees
All the wolves that are howling
And crickets beneath the leaves

I stand up
And breathe my surroundings
Busy, like a town
When at its founding

I smell them
Exotic medical powers
Like the rain
Covering the forest’s flowers

I realize I am hungry
Lucky, there is Eden all around
I grab a nearby fruit
Amazing tastes I have found

I taste them
Explosions of no-doubt healthy fruit
Running over me as water
Oh forest wonders I loot

While harvesting this Eden
I touch a grand tree
I feel its grooves
Containing an ages memory

I feel them
Unearthed roots flowing through
Like waves of water
Except still, and true

I close my eyes
Realizing life is around me
Even though all is black
Never so well have I seen

I know them
Ancient laws flown
Life and death
All that’s ever known

Then at once!
I open my eyes
All life explodes
In the beauty of surprise

I see them
The amazing astral sky
The forest maintained with lights and mist
Beauty again waiting in circle to die
And live again

Reviews

[deeps]

This is wonderful, I like this write alot

[Bodhisattva]

great poem! Love it how you describe the nature. I easily picture a beautiful place like that. Luckily I live near the mountain and the beach and is really beautiful.

[Zachary_James]

great

[Tessa Ross]

i love the way this flows.(:
"I close my eyes
Realizing life is around me
Even though all is black
Never so well have I seen"
&
"Then at once!
I open my eyes
All life explodes
In the beauty of surprise"
.are my favorite lines, well done JT.