I don't know if they graze on tall grasses
or tear mice and rabbits apart,
if they munch on leaves, flowers and
young shoots
or bloodily feast on small hearts.
I know they don't fear or avoid you
as you walk never crushing a branch
as you keep all your energy folded
with no sound or city man's stench.
I know well how you sit still and quiet
nothing happens, outwardly it seems,
while the nebulae flow trough your veins
linking human and animal dreams.
While the Earth never stops tracing orbits
and all life changes shape, changes form,
eternally evolving livingness
moves through all, whether human or worm.
And as we - the civilized and progressed -
rush pall-mall on a quite doubtful course
maybe those that meet with you nightly
are much closer aligned with The Force.
So one night, oh Hawk, I beseech you
as the moon helps you right path to find
do include me in that ring of woods' magic
simply hold me in your clear quiet mind.
May all of the fourleggeds and crawlies
know how honored and privileged I'd be
if they choose to include me in their circle
perhaps even send a message to me...
Izabel Sonia Ganz
October 1997
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