The Confidence of Nature

Sometimes I wonder

If nature is aware of its functions

 

Does the grass know the cows need it to graze

Do the trees know they’re apartment blocks to thousands of residents

Do the worms know that without them, the nutrients in the soil wouldn’t exist

 

Or are they simply,

Blissfully

Unaware of their own impacts

And live simply because they are alive?

You see

The sand of the desert simply allows the heat to wash over it,

And give it blistering sunburns

And the parrots rhythmically pierce the air with their shrills

And the clouds drink the ocean, and then release it from their grip to shower us with delicious rain

 

Not because these things all demand to be heard

Or to be validated

Nature,

And all it encompasses doesn’t need a name

It doesn’t need us at all

 

But yet

Unapologetically

Without hesitation

Will never fail to flow

Wherever they decide

Simply because it is their small mission,

That the world relies on

 

How I wish I had that poise-

The confidence of nature