the healing rhythms of nature

Nature knows the balance of things

It is always adjusting itself

To the Universal rhythms

It allows its oceans to breathe

In and out and in and out

Its trees to shed

When autumn comes

So can we become

Just a little more attuned

To nature?

There is a magical cure

For all of this useless restlessness and striving

It is to stay

Closer to the harmony of the wave

And to embrace the calm

That comes from slowing down

The breath

There is a healing that can only be found

By opening

And there is a closing that will come

As one phase ends

Just as the flower closes

Or sheds it petals

There will come a time to shed

And release new seeds

A time for crying tears

To water them

A time for letting go

Of what we used to know

So we can find

A new way forward

There is an inner knowing of the right timing

And maybe can learn to follow it

When we attune both our body and our breath

To the healing rhythms

Of nature