THE LANGAGE OF NATURE

Each language has it’s own beauty

perhaps that’s why people travel the world seek them…

I imagine they are just like me

and would someday like to speak them…

 

But there is one language we may never speak

it is a culture without words

It’s one we step outside to seek

in the trees, the sky…the birds.

 

It’s a language none of us can recreate

as it remains, to us, unknown

because nature does not translate

a language all her own.

 

When rain drops fall upon the ground

seedlings immediately know…

as the water reaches them without a sound

they hear…it’s time to grow.

 

And when the sun’s rays touch that soon-to-be flower

as it awakes from its womb

the silent sunshine reveals its power.

when it whispers…time to bloom

 

The wind invisibly rushes out and in

We try to comprehend but we have no chance

for we only know where she has been

as she invites the trees to dance.

 

We know all living things talk to each other

We know they’ve found a way

We know they’re listening to their mother

We just don’t know what they say.

 

But that’s OK with us…for each day

we can enjoy their music and their dance

without recognizing all the words they say

Like when we visit Italy or France.

 

In a way it’s like we’re in a foreign land

Nature’s land of trees and fish and birds

and tho their language we may never fully understand

 

we can enjoy the rhythm of their words.


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