Nature’s Retreat

We speak of stress and weary days,
of sickness, sorrow, tangled ways.
We call life unfair, harsh and unkind,
while storms of thought consume the mind.

Yet nature whispers a different song,
where nothing is fair, yet all belong.
The sun burns bright with tireless flame,
still flowers bloom and do not complain.

The birds endure the changing skies,
yet greet the dawn with joyful cries.
The fox in heat may seek the shade,
yet carries on through light and fade.

No life escapes the test of time,
the steepest hill, the hardest climb.
What comes to you is not always yours to choose,
but how you bear it is yours to use.

So bloom like flowers beneath the sun,
sing like birds when day has begun.
For life’s true gift is not what’s given—
but how we live the life we’re living.