At first I was afraid of them.
I mean; they are so big! They
can hurt you without trying;
without wanting to. But they
were so willing to be friendly
that we became friends.
I will never understand
how agreeable animals can be--
how they are ready to trust
such inferior beings;
how they are content to go
anywhere with us, without
knowing where we are going,
or where we have been.
i was young and grew old along with one special spectacularly inteligent arab. he's dead now and you've managed to put into wonderful words part of the reason why i still miss my closest friend...
he balked not at where we were going and more importantly...judged me not for where we had been