Moon on barren skin,
Dusk in her finest corset—
Give the stars a show!

As the seasons bleed
And the years go sailing by
To you, I return

The rain has a lot to say,
but nobody wants to hear it.
The rain keeps it's emotions bottled up,
and nobody notices when it breaks.

When it does break, everyone stays inside,
they get away from the rain,
not wanting to be affected.

The rain goes to hide beneath the mask of the sun,
and it watches as everyone comes out to enjoy.
Because everybody wants to be affected by the sun.

So the rain shows it's true mask beneath the dark skies,
at night when almost nobody can hear or watch it.
It shows it's true mask, the moon,
and it's shocked upon seeing the truth.

Someone does watch the rain,
They dance in it.
The rain smiles upon noticing the truth,
someone will love it for who it is,
not for being the sun or the moon,
but for being itself.

It is so easy to get lost in the ether
Floating in the thick of doubt
Or contrived little demons poking holes in confidence.

I tether myself to the wild,
Breathe in verdant meadows,
Covered in vivid colored petals,
Tickled by butterfly wings and busy honey bees.

I am anchored —
To the orchards,
To the ancient oaks
Whispering knowledge through shaken branch
And shaken leaves under a zephyr breeze.

I am renewed in the river currents,
Water splashing, dashing along my dirtied palette
Cleansing the soot and sulfur,
Refreshed by drinking her endless waters.

It is too easy,
To let the past be a shadow
But I chase the sun,
Basking in the glory of it’s conflagration
How it warms and bakes olive tones to golden browns.

I am safe within the cornfields,
At home within the caves and waterfalls,
Unstoppable amongst the arboreal giants.
A timber wolf, howling at moonlight
A blue jaw calling in the distance,
A boy healed from a world of pain,
A man has grown to shower love on nature
A father who watched his flower blossom,
A man who didn’t let toxicity ruin wonder
Imaginative, in the ways to create.

A new day comes,
The light cascades
I coalesce with the green,
One with nature,
One with life,
One soul,
Anchored,
But free to roam.