The land knows you, even when you are lost.
\nIt speaks for you when you have no voice.
\nIt tastes you in each stride you take upon her,
\nThe sweat of your body returns
\nto the elements of her realm.<\/p>\n
A manifestation, an appendage,
\nan abomination bore from her most secret recesses.
\nYou are a plague she created for herself,
\nshe knows what path your greed will take, and yet speaks
\nto your heart to strengthen it, in hopes that it will be what you follow.<\/p>\n
Though you may have wandered far from where you intended to tread,
\nYour coordinates unrecognized by the best of your instruments
\nThe land knows you can never venture farther than where you belong.
\nFor every part of you has come from what is all around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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