Cycle

Young saplings

cling tightly to their

nurse log;

an ended life

nourishes a new one.

The log slowly rots away

back into the ground, 

while the saplings reach

for the sunlight

and sky. 

Death must support

life,

life must supply

for death,

or else the world

would collapse;

a never ending cycle

that is vital to our Earth.

Just needed something to cheer me up after the sad, angry thoughts I had yesterday. This was taken in the Niagara Escarpment area in the summer.