Nature has never asked me to be anything for it.

I visit the flowers and the grass and the trees

They don’t ask how I am

Or what life is for me right now

They don’t ask how I feel

They continue to be as they are 

They welcome me into their home

They are excited to see me

They do not want anything from me.

They don’t require me to be anything.

They say, come play with me.

Come rest in this soft bed of fresh grass.

Come feel what it’s like to share space with me.

Come in, whichever way you are.

Nature does not turn me away 

For the way I dress

For the emotions I feel

For the version of the person I am right now

Nature is exactly the way it is, in that moment. 

Nature approves of everything the way it is right now.

A tree doesn’t turn to a bush and say “you’re messy, clean yourself up”

An eagle does not apologize to the mouse it hunts

The wind does not gust according to a schedule or when it is requested. 

Nature does not need me to explain 

Nature does not need to understand

Nature does not pull at me

Nature does not push me away for what I said or did.

Nature absolves me of my humanness

It reminds me that I am a creature

Wild and free, if I so choose to be. 

It reminds me that I am a part of something bigger.