Newly Conceived Sunshine

As the sun awakens the forest, I ascend the faded trail. A doe and her fawn spring, startled by the stranger, traipsing through their paradise. These overlooked alpine slopes soak in tranquility, and newly conceived sunshine. Enchanted and purified I drink from untouched springs of refreshment. Give the valleys to the cities. Grant the plains to the farmers. Leave the mountains to her unsettled visitors. Where civilization grows, ugliness breeds in desperate streets. Pollution collects beside her gutters. Man turns on himself in greed. In the places people gather, desecration and hatred are common, and he is cut off from himself. His cities are bastions of confusion, concrete coffins awaiting the fill. Save me from our urban abominations.