Excuse me, Nature,
we’re going to need to use you.
Don’t worry! We’ll
look after you.

Excuse me, Nature,
we’re going to need to move you.
Don’t fret! We’ll
look after you.

Me again, Nature,
we’re going to have to take over you.
Don’t distress! We’ll
cage you and keep you alive.

One more thing,
you’re going to have to fall to our needs.
Don’t sweat! We’ll
bastardise you nicely.

© Blake Leitch March 13, 2012

The greatest of Kings can command
the respect and power of all,
but a King can not decide
when Nature brings in the fog.

The richest of Men can muster
all his strength and wealth to
buy the world, but he can not change
Nature’s blanket of blue.

The Achiever can garner
respect for all that he has done,
but he can not equal all the power
and glory of Nature’s sun.

But the wise, they take nothing
for their knowledge. They watch,
and think, and ponder, and know that
nature is something they just can’t match.

© Blake Leitch March 4, 2012

There was once a time
when the world was small.
Necessity was the mother
of invention. We were ants
and the trees grew tall.
We had everything,
we were happy,
we were simple.

At some point, somebody
learnt a new way.
While all we had was
all we needed, somebody
suddenly wanted more.
The bright flame that
lit all around us,
it was doused.

We changed our minds,
we changed our ways.
We were big, strong,
we were gods.
We crushed the ants
and we cut the trees.
Suddenly, the world
must fall into our order.

Now, there are many lights,
but none show where you are.
Nature has been forgotten,
replaced by our creations.
The skyscrapers pierced the sky,
but only for us; this was no Babel.
Has greed taken hold? It seems now,
invention is the mother of necessity.

© Blake Leitch March 2, 2012

All our life we are told
that our eyes are tricking us,
that there’s illusion in the reality we see.
I’ve never much cared for the sense of science.

It’s not that science is bad; no, no.
It’s that there’s a majestic beauty to the unknown,
a quirky delight in the uncommon.
There is something simply sensational in the irresponsibly insensible.

What is it we see here?
Apparently, we see the illusion of a heart
through the frame of a wedding ring.
But this is science’s sense.

Maybe, what we’re really seeing,
is the importance of devotion.
We aren’t seeing an illusion of reality;
more, reality in an illusion.

© Blake Leitch February 29, 2012

Too often we forget our place
in the world and search for more.
Up the mountains, under the seas;
there’s never enough
and our natural instinct
is simply more, more.

But what would happen
if we took a step back
to look? What would we see?
That every now and then,
Heaven is closer
than we could dream.

© Blake Leitch February 15, 2012