This episode is also available as a blog post: https://imnotgoood21blog.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/the-dream-within-the-machine/

"exploring
enjoying
nature,
and her calls,
the beauty of it all
the wind
when she makes her presence known
I see the dirt
travel
like footsteps of the Earth’s breath,
becoming unraveled,
walking
enticing
the call of the wild
among the land
the birds chirping
and chattering
and talking
in their tongue
fluttering their wings
singing things of things
watching me as I watch
back at them
the trees swaying
the bugs claiming
the land
the Sun in the sky
lending a hand
to the beauties and beasts of the land
whilst eating and soaking
the life in
walking and stalking in circles
hoping
life, too,
will continue to lend a hand
to the call of the wild…
and meanwhile I play pretend
wishing that this life would
never end
the beauty of nature
is here, for now,
but tomorrow
man seeks the call of machines
where nature
had only intervened
I’ll miss the birds and the trees
and the bees and the spring
so I take it all in now
taking deep breaths
before man
takes it away indefinitely
and I’ll play back
the memories
the songs she sings,
life,
when the sky was pleased
before man urgently
takes it away from thee and me
and, even then, I’ll still sing
playing them back,
gleefully,
the memories,
the beauty
that life had given to thee and me
the life,
the one and only,
soon to be…
The Dream (within The Machine)."