Wind

Life in wind

moves over under

it closes doors

from sight and wonder.

Trees dance their dance

when wind walks by,

birds take to wing

when wind lifts high.

Waves boil and toil

when blown apart

and sailboats fly

wind gives them heart.

Fire grows as the wind blows

some people drift

wherever wind goes.

When wind is mad

it can destroy,

a single eye for all to fear

can make your world

turn into tears.

No man made thing

can survive all

that wind can bring

before it's fall.

In animals it points to prey

with us in place

it shows the way.

Then wind is breeze

it cools in summer

or brings back memory

of life in slumber.

Wind brings peace

to lonely souls

and reminds all

that where it goes

it lifts life with blowing seed

spreading growth

where there is a need.

Wind is life when moving mills

helps us all move through the hills

and flags do show

that they belong

when wind gives life

to flutter song.

The wind is here

to make life clear

to bring us scent

that is not near.

It freely offers to cleanse our world

with blowing dust and mighty twirl

and when it's done with work it's given

the wind anew is always driven.

Like our lives

wind sometimes floats

perhaps one lesson

is not to boast and if we follow wind's direction

without control, without reflection

then bend we must

like the great trees

or wind will treat us

like the leaves.

Blowing freely

with no direction

intent on moving

without connection.