Why Does Anyone Meditate?

I meditate to listen.
Does the earth not hear?

I meditate to understand
Maple’s hues are constant with its roots

I meditate to center
Autumn is never out of season

I meditate to worship
Earth needs not be told to bow

Perhaps it does nothing else
So never is it gone for long

dVersepoets.com considers rhetoric question in poetry. From 6 random lines from Neruda’s poetry, the book of questions, choose one and write a poem of riposte, retort and rejoinder.
I chose “Do you know what the earth meditates on in Autumn?”