Embryonic self clothed in protective
coat, key to evolution of us all,
keep faith in your vital process. You give
us life and knowledge both: bold, silent call
of our creed to continue. Your concrete
image of nutrient cache instructs us
to germs of how to sustain, to complete
each physical nurture. Who among us
doesn’t owe you? Yet we humans connive
to control, even own you. Teach us with
each ripened ovule just how we should live:
sow soul, propagate truth, creative myth,
permeate our great earth with love, disperse
to all deep wisdom of our universe.
Roger Armbrust
January 10, 2012
