One With Nature

Alone in the woods.

I remember when I was young.
I’d skip school and go to the woods, to become one
with the spirit of the wild.

To sit under a tree and just be,
without a care In the world.
Listening to the birds,
and talking with my friends the trees.

Moving slowly down the trails.
No place to really be.
Except right where I am.
And the wildness lived in me.

The joy of the squirrel seeking food or a friend.
The deer watching me, as I stop and watch her.
Till she stomps her foot and gives a snort.
Then, runs with several deer I didn’t see.

I put my bare feet in the small cold brook,
and watch a Leopard frog pretending to be invisible.
A soul like me,
just hanging around the creek.

Dripping sweat in the late summer heat.
Maybe I’ll skinny dip in the nearby lake.
Pretending to be a shaman,
on some spiritual path.

The trail goes on,
and I follow it through the trees.
Oaks, Maples, Sycamores, and Shag Bark Hickory’s.

Till I see an old hunters stand.
I climb it and sit.
Not to kill, but to love and be one.

Those days are gone now.
As I’ve grown old.
Responsibilities loom, and problems come.
But those wild friends of mine still remain in my heart
and Paradise to come. Some day.

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Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry eBook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery eBook called “Made Free: Overcoming Addiction“  a collection of dystopian short stories.“The Future is Coming” and his latest book “The Latter Days‘ is a book on Bible Prophecy and avoiding the deceptions to come.

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