Alone in the Woods

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Alone in the woods I felt

The bitter hostility of the sky and the trees

Nature has taught her creatures to hate

Man that fusses and fumes

Unquiet man

So rises the wrath of Nature's creatures

At man

So paints the face of Nature a violent green.

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Nature is sick at man

Sick at his fuss and fume

Sick at his agonies

Sick at his gaudy mind

that drives his body

ever more quickly

more and more

in the wrong direction.
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I choose the path

that's leading down into fall

He goes with me,
But I can see he's refusing

"Why would you choose a road you can't control?"

He knows the answer,
But I remain so confusing

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And now we stand

on a brink of our treasure

Raven wall, smooth

and mighty, rises between

And feeling of calmness,

which words cannot measure

Dulls the longing to pass,

which is striking and keen.