Universal Common Descent

 
 
I was told things. I didn’t feel them  
And I wondered why they told me,
 
When I went to the woods  
Or walking in the fields of clover,
There was nature and god in all things and in me too.
 
Universal Common Descent,  
We should be taught this,  
About our natural world,  
To look at the whole of something  
And relationship to its surroundings,
 
There is a physical connection  
And then platitude where you impose your perspective,
 
There is a lake and there is a mountain,  
They do what lakes and mountains do in harmony,
The placid lake below the mountain gives a reflection,  
But not to the lake, and not to the mountain,  
And the mirror is energy,  
They never think to move, but they move anyway,
 
This is the natural world in action,  
But when we impose less than natural,  
The world becomes less than natural,  
 
And then good people get confused  
To where the natural world begins and ends,
 
The world is deaf to the natural world,
 
There are codes written less familiar than in holy books,  
These things don’t need given instruction,  
Only better understanding through ecology  
To raise ourselves as the keepers  
Of this great world and all it inscribes,  
It’s in the trees, the grass, and the mountains.