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Poetry 

Collective

What I Know to be True

By Nathan Haley

We take a look a life

And it seems to be simple

Yet one thing we don’t mention 

Are the complex cycles

That life goes through

 

For example, 

We know that we need oxygen to live

But not everyone knows how the lungs utilize the oxygen

By taking the carbon dioxide out of the blood

And replacing it with oxygen

Then taking the carbon dioxide 

Releasing it through breathing out

The process is like the body naturally purifying itself

 

We also know that plants need water to grow

And they usually source it from rain

But do you know what the plants do with the water?

The plants utilize the water to get nutrients from the soil

And using it to grow the stems and leaves

Taking something that many take for granted

And turning it into something beautiful

 

Although these may seem complicated 

The thing that I know most to be true 

Is that we don’t need to know everything that goes on

To appreciate the result

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