Set down the suit, remove the shoes

Lose the socks and like new peruse

The grass between each toe.

Let the light, as giver of life

Flow over and caress the skin,

Warming without and healing within;

Find peace among the leaves.

 

Heart exposed, in feeling know

There is much more here than eyes can show,

Look past the brown and green

To realms unseen, where happiness of being

Glows in the heart, makes home

In the bones and there it shows

The forgotten we used to know.

 

Go, and leave the phone at home,

Roam the calm and quiet alone

Where birds replace the engine drone.

Welcome haven close at hand,

This piece of green and pleasant land,

Is losing ground to painted doors

Planted on its ancient shores.

 

Where steps once fell on wooded streets

Feet now meet with hard concrete,

To greet brick and glass and plastic grass

In modern farce of nature’s art.

Stones planted will never grow

For all their use, we surely know

Hope resides in life alone.