In My Element (edit 01/19/2000)
01/18/2000

Clouds in the sky
Sun in my eyes
Grass and worms beneath my head
Mother Earth becomes my bed

Rain nips at my skin
even as light rays grace my eyelids
	and thunder crashes so far in the distance,
	that I do not hear it
	but my heart feels it
	as it cycles my blood throughout me

I became rather dirty
	in my element
As I experience the earth

Magnificent as it is,
	I can't help but fall asleep
Lulled by sunset
In the mud I will forever steep.

©2000 Katrina Kidwell Johnson