The Gift of Life

Its roots are ancient, its value inestimable
for its life-sustaining properties yet it is a
humble plant beginning its own existence
as a random seed taking root in a field to take
its nutrients from the soil, drawing minerals
and vitamins, its best friends, the life-giving
sun and the cheerleading rain, and the wind
to disperse its seeds, all dedicated to its success 
as ordained by nature when she perfected 
the intricacy and interrelatedness of an 
ineffable scheme of glorious existence part
and parcel of an inexhaustible vision as
all-encompassing as the universe and as
detailed as the minutiae of an infinitesimally
negligible creation, an animal gifted with the
capacity to use its senses to view and to
analyze, challenging its brain to make choices
to fulfill nature's bestowal of the instinct of
survival, and no other gift of the field has
enabled that success as has that primordial
vegetation that revels in sun, rain and wind
waving the magic wand of its wonderfully 
digestible head in triumphantly arable fields.