SUNFLOWERSMOTHER NATURE

Some people say it isn’t a comfortable way to live,
But if you want to avoid being overwhelmed
By too much or too little of something
You didn’t really ask for in the first place,
You’d better always be prepared for Mother Nature
To show up on your doorstep
With her bottomless bag of tricks
Demanding to be let in.

There she stands one day when you least expect it
With mud, or is it blood, all over her boots
After having wiped out your cornfield
To say nothing of your herd of cows
That you haven’t paid for yet,
But what can you do
When, at best, you’re just a sharecropper anyway
Hoping to make a buck off the land you lease from Her.

Just about the time you convince yourself
That there isn’t any way you can clean up the mess,
She slips back into your yard and your heart
With the sunniest day you’ve seen since November,
And you find yourself swearing
There isn’t anyplace in the universe
Where life is better than here,
And you know you’re right.