painfully, i wake.

the day comes much too soon,

for only in my dreams are you there

the day brings respite from the loneliness,

but its the loneliness that brings you

only in the darkness of my dreams can you exist

for its truth lives in the light, and you are not she

but in the dark

you are still with me

roses

As we celebrate the beauty of the rose,
should we not celebrate the sharpness of its thorns?

3 days in Paradise and the perceptions begin to shift.
Wanting to acceptance, desire to appreciation, sceptism to faith.

Nature rules by no simple fluke. It is absolute.

We become painfully aware of the fact that even though we operate as a virus, nature views even viruses as part of the process. Beauty and pain are one. Drought is not a problem, flood is no drama.

There is never a reason to fear, as the balance of nature is always there. It is the balance of man that we fear for.

As dinosaurs ruled the earth, so did man... only in his head. Nature outlives us all.

Only the extinct fear evolution. In time, we are all extinct. Evolution cannot be owned.
Fear of extinction does not provide exclusivity or relief. Like the termite and the lion, we are all just species.
Out of control here like the rabbit in Australia. We are part of the package but only a temporary source of irritation.

In time, nature shrugs, and we fall to extinction, to be replaced by whatever else is on the evolutionary table.