Close Your Eyes

   Close Your Eyes

              Gray clouds float over the crimson and white lighthouse,

              while the earth, a blue marble, spins past other planets.

              It whisks by, bound by an invisible cosmic thread.

              In the way it moves, close your eyes and hear the spring breeze.
              Among the trees, capturing an unbroken flow.

             Our ecosystem weighs the fresh water running downstream,

             Where all connections meet. 

             The tropical rainforest is home to many species.

             Oh, what beauty lies in the depths of the coral reef

             A diverse, unique life form beyond the fading coastline.

             Mountains, of mountains: jagged monuments of time,

             outstretched, until they dissolve into the Sahara’s sun

             scorched sands. In departure from view, the blistering heat.

             Fades into the frozen pulses of the Arctic tundra, Alpine peaks.

             And Antarctic sheets grip the land.

             As glaciers sweep over the landscape in multicolored gray

             Blue and white flowing downstream, a slow and serene release.

            Meanwhile, the Everglades dance in a patient rhythm, a velvet

            river of growing grass.

            Mangrove guards the pine rockland, a living history we should

            Cherish. Open your mind to this wild, endangered refuge

            where nature speaks.