Honor to the Sentient World

From Durango, Co on 09/10/20 by Leigh LaRue

Searching for meaning in this senseless world

Wishing for something, anything that would offer peace

If I did drugs I’d be under a bridge or below the dirt

Instead, I stuff it all down in hopes to appease

The spirits within that haunt my head

Clear it’s become, me it’s not about

Most of the time all I can feel is dread

A bigger cause is seeking me out

Mother Earth and her life that does not speak

The four-legged, the birds, the water and trees

Calls to my soul, in not a whisper but a shriek

I see you and feel you, I fall to my knees

I feel your pain and wish to heal

Your agony you thought went unheard,

The long suffering that within you feel

We humans whose ignorance is absurd

So backwards to the innate, I wish to appeal

To the sentient world that we ignore

Not all of us are blind, you see

If it weren’t for you I’d be dead and gone

Without your grace we would no longer be

I pray for healing of all life, a new dawn

Originally published at http://leighlarue.com on September 11, 2020.