Never have I felt

So alive as this

I’ll tell you of

My secret wish:

 

To live unburdened

In this place

Of fields and trees

And meadow grace

 

Of lightening storm

And firefly

There is a flame

Inside mine eye

 

When I think to live

Each precious day

By brook I walk

By field I lay

 

I’ll tell you of

My secret wish-

Never have I felt

So alive as this.

Aria is a Sonoma Valley native, and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential student. Since she was age seventeen, she has written poems while walking in Nature. It is the main way she makes sense of the world, and of this crazy gift we call life.