Nature's Covenant

Generous to a fault we have
Nature to thank for the
priceless reality of existence.
The fault lies in its finite measure
accomplished by pairing life
with time. Realizing the flaw
in her blueprint to invest
fertility and fecundity in her
creatures, sharing the divine
act of creation, it struck the
mistress of existence that all
life must pause, expire and be
reborn. So the transitory reality
of life dogged and hectored by
restless time has resulted in
the ephemerality of beauty of
will and of mind, some things
living vanishingly briefly
entrances and exits set by the
calendar year, others clinging
longer, but all ultimately
fated to fade and decline
awaiting inevitable replacement.