Nature

I’ve got something that can’t be found in any shape or form.

And you sit there

with your feeble mind 

questioning the perpendicular shape that appears 

before you even

know what hit you. 

There is more to life than shapes and bubbles

this was made evident to me the first time I ventured into the forest after dark.

 Shame you could not join me

I had tea with a barn owl. 

He gave me steady advice.

I would go so far as to tell you what the advice in itself was.

To do so would defile the law of nature and

the last thing I want is for nature to be against me.

Nature is against you. 

In a heaven you escape to after the sun goes down. 

Nature deceives our minds 

It seems like she is our friend. 

I know her better than that though!

Nature would never become friends with man.

 Do you think she is a fool!?

And so after I had tea with the owl, 

I had a dream that there was no place to run

and no place to hide. 

The darkness dawned upon me with no forgiveness and all I saw in

the distance were the haunting remains of burnt ash and cinder. 

The owl told me that this was my future 

that as a human I had already denied myself the freedom of the elm trees 

and the scent of the great pines.

By plucking the acorns I was creating disarray of

every such thing I came into contact with.

Panic.

Breathe.

Harder.

I will destroy the forest.