Self-Reflecting

I could sit on a creek bank

Just watching the water flow

Hearing the crickets chirp
And see the fish swim below

The sun pierces through the trees

It gives the area just enough light

My mind drifts in and out

I wonder if I'm feeling all right

A single tears rolls down my cheek

As the memories come into play

Then I let out the water works

But no one asks me if I am okay

The heart is a vessel of love

And when it hurts, it often breaks

Sometimes it needs reassurance

To calmly fill its depressing ache

A frog jumps on a lily pad
And a snake slithers on by

A dragonfly lands on a sunflower

But aren't alert to my cry

Nature has its own dire issues

It needs not to concern itself with me

For everything struggles in the circle

As we live life so vicariously

I wipe my face and instantly smile

I feel as if it has already complied
I reflect on life and on myself
It starts by changing inside

Sometimes nature just grabs you
You have no particular place to go

I could sit on a creek bank

Just watching the water flow.

by: James W. Mckay
July 16, 2015