The dawn chorus I do hear

It's silence I do fear

Squirrels eating in their tree 

A sight to behold you see

Nature all around you and me

Brings much joyful glee

Good for the mind and the soul

Makes our life that more whole

Yet rarely we take time to look 

Know not it fills each and every nook 

If we took some time to stop and stare

Better still our lives might fare

For nature may bode better for it 

When we take the time to admit 

That we are no better a species 

Instead we are nature's bullies

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Karen Burns is 49 and lives in Coventry, England. She is a graduate at Warwick after completing a Social Studies degree. Her interests are reading, poetry, writing reviews and she has a blog all about her daughter who has an eating disorder.