Darwin Slam Poem: Nature I Love
I can only tell you for what has been preexisting
my travels, a wonder, a phenomenon, I have experienced
As though such a man ever believed in me
I proved to myself, I could make do
With no money, and nowhere to be
I reflected upon
what the Earth gave me
through the quakes and realizations
Nature I saw around me
Nature I studied
Nature I learned from
Species howling, barking
Species flying, floating
species here one day, gone the next
Earth changing, ever so slightly
Earth, having already changed ever so slightly
Earth continuing to change ever so slightly
I write in my book for what I have observed
time has brought this change, and I have been witness
Through this mad race for fitness
I live through the echoes of what has already been done
Life forms having existed before
holding the key
the key to the secret of all lifeforms
the ancestor of which we all share
we all are one
and exclusive by our own sequence
Its a wing
no, its a hand,
from the same place they originate, or do they?
I have learned and shared so much, for it is
Nature I saw around me
Nature I studied
Nature I learned from
Nature I love