Why Wish Your Life Away?

Are two twigs in the hand

worth the green from the bush,

I just wonder this

as through life we push

to get ahead,

go over the hill,

keep on running

until,

until

we have lost our leaves

and there’s no energy reserve

stored up our sleeves!

So what is the answer

through the dying days,

do we cling to life

or wish ‘to pass’

over the hill

to the greener grass.

When I have a question

and an answer I seek,

I look to nature

and the cycles we see,

I look to leaves

and I look to trees,

I see the sun rise most every day

and I know if it’s cloudy

it has not gone away……

In its’ own time,

in a timely manner,

the sun shines again

and we harvest our yields

the grass becomes greener

in most every field.

And there are days

when nature displays

hard mountains

and hail,

floods and wind gusts,

but what comes through

these twists,

or bushfires and fear,

is the truth

that brotherhood is ever near.

There are helpers

and healers,

fundraisers and dealers

who rally around

to bring strength to bond,

so when I say nature answers each time

it is because our truth

is, we are all One……

What also comes to uplift our spirits

is human nature,

compassion,

sixth-sense

and the nudge of a horse or hound

or a bird on the twig,

whatever,

wherever

there is life to greet

and if you lie,

‘wishing each day to die in your sleep’,

good heavens may open and your soul to keep,

or you may wake up

each morning, each day

and look out the window

and gratefully say………

“I am here in this moment

this life that is mine,

some have ‘passed over’ this day

so here am I,

happy

for each hour,

each sunrise I see,

I am happy to stay

to witness the ebbs,

to witness the flows

and certainly know

in time I will go

but that is our story

our mystery

our glory,

to fade after flowering,

to wilt in the heat,

to slow-grow in the cold

or to Love and behold,

‘to wait my time’

to the fullness,

full-bloom,

to love everybody

as if each day is our last,

to welcome the new

and release the past…….”

When we give up

the need to know

why things are

the way they are,

we will come to understand

that we do not need to know!!

When you have accepted

that some mysteries

are indeed most acceptable…….

Then the answers come,

from where they are now.

(Written on October 24, 2013 as I picked two ‘fern-like’ shaped Twigs of the Nandina, Japanese Sacred Bamboo.

To me these ornamental twigs have a unique beauty, as do these earlier stems which held sprays of beautiful cream flowers……… just as the last years, or days, of our earthly life are as equally precious, a sacred gift, as are the earliest ones.)