The Good Farmer

-------The Good Farmer-------

The Good Farmer is an activist of justice
in a most passive and radical of ways,
growing food and medicine
seeds and hope
at once;

the Good Farmer watches the sun
in reverence, and in silence
they pray to the Light
and Grace
that shines upon all things;

the Good Farmer enriches the soil with minerals,
balancing energetics
like the conductor of a great orchestra;the Good Farmer is always
reading
the history of the World in a handful of soil,
the Universe in a tiny seed,
reflecting
upon their own reflection
in the clear waters
and stories
of eternity;

the Good Farmer respects the integrity of time,
and believing there is no end to time,
they plant trees;the Good Farmer accepts science as well as poetry,
yet prefers wonder to intelligence,
denying not knowledge
as it is a catalyst to understanding;

the Good Farmer knows the best fertilizer is
Love,
and that cultivation begins in the
Heart;

the Good Farmer joins
the stability of Wilderness with the fragility of man,
and mimics the forest in their fields
in a communion of beauty and necessity;

the Good Farmer dances
improvising with entropy,
response within the dynamic balance
of order and chaos;the Good Farmer is resilient
to oppression, by saving seed
to dis-ease, by supporting the vitality of the soil
to limitation, by building foundations to reach potential;

the Good Farmer does not work hard,
but works smart,
and enjoys
in the complexity of life's simple processes;

the Good Farmer sleeps well at night,
cradled in the harmony
they have helped to create.

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