The way is slow and onerous through the black dust The lifelines anchor themselves firmly In order to nourish itself with the juice of life Precursors of what will soon become The first green life growing towards the light It expands in the empire of sun, rain and wind Delicate veins exchanging with the air of life These pores, the engine of this species In the course of time, it will ripen To transfer the spectator in charming and marvelling A nodule of the beauty, lovely and seductive at the same time In the midpoint of its lifetime In the age. all decays what once was young and beautiful Covered by foliage and dust It passes and becomes one with that where it once came from Rest in peace, sleep well Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
