isn't here.  

The weather is here  
  wet and almost dry  
  cool and warm  
  neither cold nor hot  
The land is here  
  whispering back generations,  
  centuries, millenia,  
  but not eons  
Life is here, tropical and teeming  
  trees and grasses,  
  greens you won't find in a rainbow  
  fruits and flowers  
  and foliage and fecundity  
And scents, scents of attraction  
  and musk and birth  
  and decay and ocean  
  and snow-capped mountain  
Progress is here  
  change to keep us safe  
  and dry and protected  

isn't here.  
isn't here to see the progress  
  smell the smells  
  taste the fruits  
  gaze up into the trees  
  and down into the grass  
  to watch as a big bundle of fur  
  flies unrestrained through grass  
  and jungle, chasing  
  who knows what  
  and feel the life  
  and sink into the land.  

isn't here, but in days  
  will be here again  
  we will share this together  
  as we did in a day now long passed  

—2p

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