Go Touch Grass

Go Touch Grass

Put down the bright, busy, brain-draining screen

and go look at some soft brown and still green.

Feel the pokey, flexing, uplifting spring

of this tenacious, growing, vibrant thing.

Ground your weary body in the cool sward.

Plant your feet, stand upright, reap the reward!

Our friend Sun will greet you with a light kiss

and charge your cells like photosynthesis.

If being inside plugged into the wall

makes you feel tired, negative, pale, and small,

maybe it’s time to touch some gentle grass

and escape from electronic morass.