Ecology of Love - Nora Bateson

[Larry Robinson]

Ecology of Love 
 
Ecology is a love story. 
A play scripted between the sunlight’s tender dappling on the forest floor, 
The elegant drapery of the vines that climb a cliff face, 
The tickle of the squirrels and birds 
Holding society in the tree tops 
And the sultry sway of the purple kelp the otters cannot resist. 
The touch of life on life met in the tension 
Between unshaking trust and heartbreaking vulnerability 
Is a kiss of light and love and heat 
And earth. 
It is fierce and sweet 
And rages with the same passion. 
It births a wild rose. 
And in naming you 
I grasp and find there are no completions, 
Nothing in straight lines 
 
Only affection, 
Reaching, 
Reading the gestures
That spread everywhere.
 
 
	- Nora Bateson