Mother Nature

(Picture Credit - Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China, by Korubu - Alexandre Martins - on Flickr) 

Mother Nature rules the World,

And probably

The whole Universe.

Our Earth, a planet blue,

Just teems with Life.

Even deep beneath the ocean,

Amongst those geysers,

Oh so Hot,

You will find Life.

Lakes filled with acid,

Bone –dry deserts (look underground),

Solid sheets of ice:

They all are home-sweet-home

To bacteria

Or Viruses,

At the very least.

We bomb those cities to piles of rubble,

And poison the Earth with God knows what,

Yet always, given time,

Life will re-assert itself:

That sprig of couch-grass,

Those flowers.

Mother Nature never does give in.

Life springs eternal.

From amoeba to a dancing dolphin.

So utterly determined

To survive.

Clinging to existence

Like a limpet on a rock.

Invincible in Her tenacity.

Paul Butters