Forest Climax, Renewal

Underfoot, untold generations of
desiccated fall waste, needles, 
twigs and seasonal foliage decayed 
and enriching the forest floor,
leafmould become a soft moist
and life-enriching carpet, a nursery
to welcome the regeneration and
resurgence of new life as the forest
feeds upon itself, fungi inspired
to existence by rotting wood fibre,
bracken revisiting life on the
decay of earlier generations as
deciduous and conifers share
the nurturing bounty inciting them
to aspire to majesty in the lineage
of their species as exemplars in
reflection of nature's scheme of
birth and death, climax and renewal.