The Nature of Things

Lost in thought, 

hemmed in by

not knowing,
trapped
in the work-a-day world,
I took a walk,
found a Toad
in the leaves
by the woods
slowed down
to a stand-still
by the cold.
Will you be my
good luck charm?
I wasn’t superstitious
but I needed something - a sign
of good things
to come.
I carried it inside,
but it felt out of place
in that place
where the natural
is not.
I thought,
I'd better bring it
back, let it go
to the wet ground
it knows,
to the somewhere
I wish
to go.