space to grow...

i need space to grow. like a plant... remember.
     to evolve, blossom.
i need fresh healthy air.
i need proper hydration.

i need nourishment... vitamins, fertilizer, nutrients.
i need to grow roots, my foundation...
     i need to be rooted... connected to the elements of earth, beneath me.

Am i contained in a spacious enough lifestyle?
     what is holding me? is it stable? healthy, together?

I need sunshine... the bright energy that gives the fire- that burns the fuel...
     to RUN, to energize...
 to grow, and evolve... and blossom, and flower...

I can grow alone...
but the truth is...
i grow better with other growing beings.
not necessarily the same 'species' as me...

because... originally... and naturally...
all living and dying creatures, of all shapes and sizes... species, and category...
     DEPEND on each other to keep each other ALIVE.
     in the cycles of LIFE and DEATH.
     ONE completely connected intertwined dot of EVERYTHING.

you eat me... i keep you alive.
     i fertilize you...
you grow and drop seeds...
those seeds are transported... transplanted.
in the wind... by the feet of another.... the fur, the snout, the flow...
     I DIE...
the worms and insects...
     eat me.
the leaves, dying... floated off...
     ... the tree... decompose...
melt my bones with their blanket...

the animals ate my flesh, my story...

the tree grows healthier and stronger... with my decomposed body at it's roots...

It all is connected.
     WE are all connected.

We too are alive.
Like the plants... and the earth.