Nature's Guidance

I am alone in the crowds,

Even with an acquaintance or more.

I lose myself in the clouds

Because the rest is a bore.

I see myself smile, I see myself wave

At most people I recognize,

While slowly circling my grave.

Yet I lift my head to wondrous skies,

Knowing there are better things in life.

And so I flow into Nature,

Seeking solace from my strife

Within the grasses, flowers, and all.

And once welcomed by that Body,

I find myself, not alone, but Living.

Inside the trees, the breeze, ...at ease.

While at ease I find the moments were never dull;

My focus was simply misplaced, that was all.

Just an explanation: I do not believe that people are taken up into Nature and that Pantheism is the whole. I believe that Nature was created by God and therefore contains expressions of God. Man is also connected to Nature in ways that were set while walking in the Garden, so I do think Nature is important in journeying with God. (But it can never be the end-all be-all that is expressed in Pantheism.)