ROCK, TREE AND ANIMAL


The mountain covered white

From the snow the night before

A cry in the distance

A wild animal hungry

The houses have not made it up here

The land still free

Man can only visit here

He comes moving by day

He does not belong here anymore

Winter takes this beautiful land

And makes it harsh on all

The aspen are bare waiting for spring

Man has become tame

Unnatural to this environment

Cities are his realm now

Lost are the old ways

Lost is the knowledge of self

Some find their being

While most remain selfish

The world changes

Will man learn to become one

With himself and others

To commune with nature again

He may find through his imagination

That all is living

Everything around him

Is part of life

Rock, tree and animal


Michael V Hechtman