Soil, Water, and Grass

Shane Hanes trades wares for profit but gifts it all to charity,

While Tom Mot and Dan now own “Top Pot Growers of Cannabis.”

Unlike the hooded monks who sell ale but inhale only Kempis,

The friars free grow coffee, hops, and tea in community.

Brothers whom live with vows and with strict austerity,

Where it’s state legal, but a crop of mendicant hemp is

Likely to make enemies of those loyal to Saint Francis

Who was once tasked to rebuild the Church and free her of heresy.

Freedom to choose and too how much to use,

What is pure Passion but to give up excess pleasure?

For to rise I must first die - let us not confuse

The changing tides with that which one alone must peruse.

Formed in Spirit and in His image we hold truth and treasure:

Souls of soil, water, and grass there is that which God did so infuse.

-Gary Edward Geraci