Nature laughs

Nature will have it's way

whether through our neglect

or in it's thwarting of our futile

attempts to tame it

glorying as it does

in it's own abundance

unmindful of consequence

it has the complete abandon

of that which has no conscience

oh such freedom it has

Is good synonymous with natural

that which comes from nature

or is good an outmoded notion

clung to by the overly meek

or those of us whose narrow focus

blinds us to all but the blindingly obvious

even with my dim vision I can see

that the trees adorn themselves

with no thought towards vanity

and are all the more beautiful for it

It can be tempting to think

that underlying nature is no structure

but that is not the case at all

although to describe the systems at play

takes us on a journey of discovery

whose boundaries lie on the outskirts

of knowledge, or in my case far beyond

a lack of understanding however

is not the same as insufficient evidence

it evinces solely my own limitations

What then does nature have to say

on the thorny subject of morality

except that it seems an irrelevance

in the wide sweep of the universe

so can we now ignore it altogether

learn lessons from the vast bulk of creation

or is this to deny something singular to us

for whom morality is more than minutiae

are we thus in danger of thwarting
our own intrinsic nature

It seems that there are times

when hope triumphs over experience

or faith leaps over empirical evidence

but what if this is in fact just nature

interweaving itself with what's already there

to gradually pull us towards

what would be there if only

we were to let go of our preconceptions

about pretty much everything really

nature enjoys a good joke it seems