The question remains the same:
how to be a good creature
in this topsy-turvy, downsliding world?
"Be peaceful," say the doves,
preening, combing their wings
with smug, pursed beaks.
"Be wily," say the foxes,
leaping into the air, then pouncing
straight down,
after scurrying below-ground mice.
"Make sure of your food-source,"
cluck the inhabitants of the henhouse,
who never have to worry
about morning grain,
unless the old woman falls into a fit
and expires on her doorstep.
"It is a makeshift existence,"
intones the wise owl,
whose home in the bowl of a tree
disappeared in a clearcut.
Life after life passes by, age after age,
yet we do not evolve.
With two polar opposite viewpoints,
nobody wins.
The path to peace is too narrow
for outsized egos.
When will we learn there is no Other,
only Us, and that
we're all in this together?
Yet the animals help each other.
A grey whale, giving birth,
with sharks circling, was suddenly
surrounded by hundreds of dolphins,
who circled around her, stirring up the waters,
until she and her calf were safe.
Dolphins could teach humans a lot
about how to be a good creature.
for Shay's Word List. The video footage of the dolphins protecting the whale is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhmTRz-B9k
Wait till it is a minute in to see the dolphins begin to circle......it is amazing. Happened off the coast of South Africa some months ago.