The Vastness of Nature

A poem on dreams, nature, and humanity.

Whisper me sweet songs

Of benevolence in Nature

Sweep me off my feet

Like times we dreamed were greater

Take me to that place

I no longer believe in

Where time stands still

And love can begin;

Anew--freed of shackles

Freed of pain

Exquisitely ambitious

Untainted by disdain

Encourage me to try cuisine

So otherworldly human

A palate purely devoted

To those of us in ruin

Take me to that sacred place

Where you and I are one

Transcending what it means

To finally be done

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It's about love, it's about pain. It's about vanity, it's about sane. It's letting go of ego. It's about trying to be free; it's about being who you should be.

As always, it comes to me in waves. I'll get inspiration from a book, a tree, a little spider. And then the words come to me and I need to write them down as quickly as possible.

It's almost like these words are coming back to me from a distance time and place.

I was reading a Michael Pollan book about Psilocybin and he mentioned how, in one of his trips, that he felt so connected to the nature around him; the nature he's been around his whole life. And yet, until now, he could never appreciate it the way he was in the moment, being present. Maybe it's just the drugs, who knows, but it was interesting to relate nature to a benevolent force that loves its human counterparts. There's no judgement, just being.

It was intriguing to me, and it ultimately comes back to how we're all interconnected. We are all one. It's such a profound concept that, maybe you can only experience on a "magic mushroom" but nonetheless, it's not as far away as we tend to think.

-JTC