I saw a leaf,
I saw a tree,
and yes, both are part of me.
I saw a wood,
and I saw a forest,
and yes, they too are part of me,
and also, I looked in the river,
and I looked in the lake and I saw a reflection of me,
yes, I saw me,
I saw me looking back at me,
and how incredible it is,
and how wonderful it is to be alive,
and to be aware of oneself,
and how wonderful it is to have sentience,
and to know that you exist and how beautiful it is,
and how beautiful and how elegant the creations of nature,
and the patterns and its colours and its complexities,
because in them all,
in them all I saw me,
I saw me,
and I am made of the Earth,
and the Earth is the history of me,
and how beautiful the Earth is,
amongst the stars in the heavens and the galaxies,
amongst the stars in the heavens in the galaxy,
and amongst many galaxies,
oh, how great it is to be me,
and how great to be sentient and free,
free to choose with life what to do,
free to live as you wish to live upon the Earth,
free, to be who you want to be,
free to build a life filled with worth.