Elucidating Questions

This is the time of year I find dead caterpillars everywhere

And I think about them and their short, cruel, lives.

Nature truly does have extreme degrees of cruelty and kindness

I try not to step on their poor dead bodies

Offer them a modicum of respect for their lives

Something other humans might not do

I have this great connection to wild things

Trees speak to me

Crows speak to me

Rocks speak to me

So many things speak to me in their ways

I wonder why so few else do