Flourishing

The forest then spoke in an archaic languagelong forgotten by God's begotten sons and daughters.The voice of roaring watersthat seeped so deep into its roots,from the days of the first seeds sownand fall of the first fruit.Its message was that of the days of old,nights of prehistoric bygones,movements that have assumed their placein the current currents,washing over us in reoccurrence.I understood as song,leapt from leafy jaw: Love thine self and all in you will flourish. Ricardo Hanley Jr.