Love Wilderness

Out here in the wilderness

I feel you breathing your sense of life

Into me

Here when we find ourselves

Out in open space

With clear vistas of the horizon

Extending

Open arms in benediction

Toward us

We find a sense of the natural world

As our soul’s truest home

And yet the world of humans

Is sometimes comfort

Sometimes curse

And we all know

Of those bleak wildernesses we find

When others turn

Their hearts and minds

So very far away from us

Is it then

That we must go in search

Of a wilder wilderness

Towards the creatures of silence

Who more easily witness and know

The silent truth burning under cover

Deep inside our souls

And here in this wilderness

No matter how alone

We discover a richer comfort

A truer home

For deep in the heart of this wilderness

Reflected in the eyes and soul

Of nature

We find love