World of Fungi

All my life

I’ve walked the gardens

for the peace and tranquility it harbours

All this time it’s not the flowers

But the verdant fungi mushroom caps

And stems like towers

Nature’s recycler 

Demise reviver

King of the understory the ruler of nature

Older than the dinosaurs

From before the reptiles

Older than the first land life that made the earth fertile

They are in the animals

In every single child

There is endless fungi we depend on for survival

Fungi built the world

Fungi can fix it

We do not own the earth but fungi simply share it

If humans broke the earth

Then fungi would rule again with its royal mycelium crown.