To Be Known
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
Occasionally, simple human interest stories can leave one wondering what it’s all about. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/joseph-dog-chained-4-years-ohio_n_4045922.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/grommet-foggy-rescue_n_4045717.html
Saturday, October 5, 2013
To Be Known
by Odin Roark
Longing to be known
Is not unlike emotions
Often fooling your security
That speedball your heart
That desperately hold on
Not unlike daydreams
That temporarily provide solace
While walking
Climbing
Flying
Not unlike hope
That never-ending relay
The teardrop perpetually in check
The opportunity just out of reach
But like facts finally accepted
Proving the sun always rises
The tide embraces its ebb
Time’s constant tick forever trusts its tock
Life provides love
Longing to be known
Truly known
If only to one
I just saw a Discovery channel series started with Man, Cheetah… The fifth-generation African whose grandfather saved his own life while being dragged by a huge male lion by stabbing it to death with his hunting knife, is now trying to save species. He has bonded with wild cheetahs, wild African dogs, and while lion prides, without any weapons except his understanding of these predators' social habits and electronic tracking so that he can be up close and personal with them every day. Amazing! What the love of one man for our lesser creatures can do.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/man-cheetah-wild
Ron
Joseph's man-made plight was truly horrific, but believe it or not, I and many other pet rescuers have found dogs in even worse shape than he was - dogs that are now walking skeletons, even more emaciated than Joseph was, discarded by their own families like the trash.
The longer that I live, and the more horrors that I sadly see with my own eyes at the hands of human beings, I often do wonder what it's all about.