Nature's Gifts

 

Is sentience more prevalent and therefore

elementally inherent in creations of nature 

than biological science might suspect?

When life returns following the winter

hiatus and hibernating creatures emerge

to perform their vital function of ensuring

that newly-risen vegetation is propagated

is this symbolic of predestination where

nature blueprints organisms in a symbiotic

relationship to populate the Earth, or

did she furnish each creature with the

building blocks of reason and reaction? 

As rational reasoning creatures we pride

ourselves in the conceit that only we

among divine nature's creations have the

cerebral means to act and react propelled by

the reasoning brain. But then ... what if?