Nature Poetry: While Hiking On the Property of Sebastian's Cabin

While Hiking On the Property of Sebastian's Cabin

Place: Matamoras, PA The forest stretches before me

in all her glory, strength, indifference.

We arrive at the mossy rock.

Where to next?

Let's go this way.

The forest possesses wisdom

That I can only hope to know.

Dead trees are draped

in burial shrouds of moss,

creating beginnings

even in their endings.

All of my life,

I have been walking,

stepping wherever I wanted,

completely unaware

of the things

I killed in doing so.