See Yonder Forest

I just love living out in the countryside, it's where my heart will always belong. The big cities are just too cold and lonely for me. I need the free-spirited wind in my hair and the fresh scents of wildflowers in my chest. There's just an unparallelled beauty in nature that seems to be growing distant in these times of urbanization and technological mayhem. Forget the iPhone and Facebook, give me a tree any day!

See Yonder Forest

See yonder forest all pleasant and green,

Just past the pastures and rivers serene?

‘Tis home to a life seldom recalled

In the hustle and haste of a city tight-walled

Where kings of great fortune and common alike

Live unaware of the glorious sight

For beyond their horizon and over their walls

Lay freedom abundant in Nature’s great halls

But blind are they all living with speed

They’ve forgotten the greatest of all greatest need

To feel the soft grass and scents of the trees;

The beauty of flowers and the trickling streams;

The blessings of Nature and the touch of the wind;

Where bird, beast, and flower all call each a friend

What is their duty and what is their fate,

Those living lives within that tall gate?

They may never know and nor shall I

So I’ll keep on dreaming with an eye to the sky

                                                                           - Piper Quinn