Nevada, Sept. weather, 2008

(side road off of  'Extraterrestrial Highway')

Onward

3/26/09

Is this simply how it is

when told the universe is expanding,

are humans emulating on 'micro' level,

procreating, consuming, producing more,

and is it possible to reverse momentum,

this 'paradigm', while embracing contraction,

contrary to 'economic growth' model,

but not Nature's, she has seasons,

cycles from birth to death,

seed to fruit, and we do to,

where periods of aging bring gifts

of knowledge, wisdom, life experience,

one leading to the next, to maturity

in degrees, depending our willingness,

contrariness, when caught in contradictions

often wondering what's 'true' for us

on ever changing miracle landscape

while personal 'environment' ... mental,

physical, spiritual, emotional ...

continues to gather layers of residue

from wanted, or unwanted conditions,

yet we get to choose the 'weather',

'whether' to travel the road ahead

without veering from storms looming,

bearing any loss through our tears,

or move onward by picking a new direction.