The Garden *

[Sapphire Dawn]

Darkness falling
The rain beats against my windowpane
Bringing me comfort and a sense of security
With the wind howling, telling the world its sorrows
It's winter again
It's Sunday again

Here I am alone in my room
Listening to Earth's Creation
Nature's wonders take me away
As I journey through the secret life of plants

How good it is to lose yourself in a world
Outside yourself
No longer surrounded by Man's threats and follies
But soothed by the ocean, the wind and the rain
By bird songs in the First Garden
A world so new, so fresh, so pure
So innocent, a virgin land
Where plants live out their lives in harmony
No wars, Nature solves the act of living
The flower swallows the bug
And that's as it should be

And so to Nature's finest creation
A superior intellect (or so it's believed)
And Nature gave him the plants and animals to eat
But did She put a flaw in his character?
Too much of an aggressive element?
Or is it all part of Nature's plan
To rid the world of Man
A purgation
to start all over again
and remedy the fault in Man's character
The world a gigantic garden
where all live in peace and harmony
forever more

* Based on Stevie Wonder's "Secret Life of Plants"

M Shovlin 4.12.83

[Michael]

Dawn, what excellent questions. Is this some kind of experiment that Nature is carrying out? Is this how it’s supposed to be?

However, what most impresses me is your aphoristic reference to the meditative state.
Originally posted by Sapphire Dawn
How good it is to lose yourself in a world
Outside yourself
If we can just sit with ourselves and just notice, that’s all, just notice without judgment a little each day, we can appreciate not only all that is around us, but we can begin to appreciate ourselves more as well.

You’ve written an important truth, Dawn, and asked important questions. Very good.