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Guided Symbiosis

Can I Be Here Then? #freeverse

By Andrea Corwin Published 2 years ago • 1 min read
Guided Symbiosis
Photo by Pasha Chusovitin on Unsplash

I don’t want to come back

No, I will stay firm

when the Guides show me how I can help

earthly souls in physical form and gently (?)

push for my return, a reincarnation

Nope

No thanks!

Too hard is this place -

desolation, hunger, war, pain, and ungentle, untimely deaths

Photo by Michael Fenton on Unsplash

I want to give gentle nudges from the Other Side

Be a Guide using a touch lightly felt, or an imagined breath,

to help to choose a path best taken

But IF I am convinced, and convinced, I'd rather not be,

I think a life in

the woods or the country might be nice

with gentle warming sunrises and whistling chortling sunsets

surrounded by wildlife

mimicking

their simple days of living in the sun or rain,

traipsing damp or dry delightful domains

eating when hungry, resting when fatigued

running under a blue sky and sleeping on a gray day

returning to do it all on another foray

Day by day, enjoying some play

in harmonious

symbiotic relationships

where animals live in families

four-legged or feathered beings,

co-existing on a peaceful planet

happily undisturbed and

free

Living in harmony, unhampered by humans

No longer captive or abused for

human entertainment or greed

Can I be here then? Is that not for me to ask?

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Andrea Corwin

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Poetry, haiku, fiction, horror, life experiences. Written without A.I. © Andrea O. Corwin

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    Written by Andrea Corwin