Ode To Nature

Amber branches now reach up to azure clouded skies once so beautifully verdant against the hills and ravines but now these monuments to longevity these lungs of the earth are charred bits of ash carelessly lite by an aimless unchecked cigarette butt and I wonder how can something so magnificent be so easily destroyed by something so insignificant as a smoking cigarette butt... as well as this tragedy there is the displacement of many and varied species nests of the birds home for the bears and a wilderness that is playground to deer and rabbits... my eyes fill with water stinging as I think of the thoughtless strike against nature her long suffering embrace still holding us firm despite countless ways we have usurped her grace, sublime beauty, and pristine nature.