Paying It Forward, Naturally

 Paying It Forward, Naturally

The Sun sends no bill for its heat and light.

The Earth pirouettes and bows.

Earth’s Soil is free for the leafy Tree,

Its Leaves, for compost, shed from fall’s boughs.

The Tree is rent-free for the nesting spring Bird

The Bird responds aloud.

The Bird eats six-leggeds harmful to the Tree.

Its gleeful voice serenades the Clouds.

The Clouds in turn rain down on the ground.

The lifting Mists refills Cloud’s billows. 

The Waters of the heavens refreshes Earth’s thirst,

Earth’s response: abundant ground formerly fallow.

Paying it forward is how Nature works,

Sharing hand-to-hand.

The People need to remember this,

As they ponder their use of the Land.