I am the Southern Breeze; <br />bearer of the Wisteria; <br /> <br />The North Wind <br />from where the ice blows. <br /> <br />I am the lover's caress <br />on sandy beach, <br /> <br />The Wind-Mill Corn Grinder <br />and the Water Wheel; <br /> <br />I am invisible <br />yet everywhere <br />I blow all over <br />this globe. <br />. <br />I've billowed your sails <br />propelled your ships <br />carried you <br />to far lands; <br />opened to you <br />new worlds. <br /> <br />True, too, <br />I have blown your houses down <br />tornadoed the things you love. <br /> <br />I am too <br />the wind of Bad Luck <br />and Ill Fate. <br /> <br />I am the wind in your lungs. <br /> <br />I carry the oxygen you breathe <br />first life's halting blush <br />and likely the last to leave <br />your body's chest. <br /> <br />Now my clear air <br />is grey <br /> <br />smoky <br />smoke-stacked <br />and my once proud <br />life of this planet <br />is near extinct. <br /> <br />Sixty miles; <br />just an hour's drive <br />of me and my oxygen <br />are your only shield; <br />against the void of outer space; <br />the cosmic rays, <br />the deadly magnetic fields <br />meteors and asteroids <br />all crash down were it <br />not for me; <br />the sun's infrared rays <br />would burn if I did not block. <br />for you and provide a cloak. <br /> <br />Indeed, <br />I am the life you breathe <br />from birth's first <br />to death's last. <br /> <br />You've felt me <br />on your face <br />riding the plains, <br />while walking the meadows; <br /> <br />remember I am <br />the Invisible Sea <br />you sail <br />and your final <br />Destiny. <br />I am the wind; <br />your oxygen.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wind-breeze/
