Comprehending Nature

A nature lover, the bicycle paths
running through the woods of a
popular family hiking area
represented her joyously preferred
route to expressing her pleasure
in nature and being comfortably
within nature's precincts. She
assumed the smiling stranger
asking directions was someone
whose values and sensibilities
reflected her own. But they were
opposites. She, light-boned, blond 
and femininely eager to please,
and he, bulky and darkly hirsute,
nursed a deadly pathology of hatred
and a destructive penchant for 
committing vile acts of psychopathy.
A very short time after giving
her eager directions to the stranger
her sightless blue eyes remained
open to the green woods surrounding
the creek in which her rigid body
lay, her brain no longer alert and
happily comprehending nature.