Poem Week, Part 4: The Nature of Nature

[deckardcanine]

Just how do you see Nature—good and pure,
Deserving of the “Mother” sobriquet,
Or crueler than the biggest evildoer
(And then perhaps deserving anyway)?
In my opinion, neither answer works
Within the context of the world I know.
For every trend of Nature fav’ring jerks,
Another lets the nicer critters grow.
In short, she’s neutral, not just bad or good.
A lot of us describe her as chaotic,
But that, again, is not the way we should:
It’s merely that her pattern is exotic
To human minds, as “chaos” is a word
For order that is not by us preferred.