Animal-shadow

Inspired by something Fred said yesterday, and a quote I saw today.

“Tant que vous n’avez pas aimé un animal , une partie de votre âme sera toujours sans éclat , endormie.” Anatole France.

Loving an animal is giving
without expectation of reward,
learning patience through a fog of incomprehension,
looking into eyes to see friendship, trust,
not the reflection of our own desires.

It is accepting to be a parent, a guardian
of a being created from the wind,
born in the wild,
that place we left so long ago
in exchange for a mirage.

It is recognizing our lack,
that we are only animal-shadow,
lost in the meanders of our egoism.

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Jane Dougherty

I used to do lots of things I didn't much enjoy. Now I am officially a writer. It's what I always wanted to be.

14 thoughts on “Animal-shadow”

  1. “Until you love an animal, part of your soul
    will always be dull, asleep.”

    -Anatole France

    So True Dear Jane With Allergies
    to Cats And Dogs My Relationships
    With Dogs And Cats Surely Strained

    Yet A Miracle of 19 Other Life Threatening
    Mostly Stress Related Disorders The Allergies
    Went Away When i Did Not Care if i Lived or Died

    Where Death Was A Greatest Blessing in Life With the
    Worst Pain Known to Humankind From Wake to Sleep
    Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia Shut-in in my Bedroom
    Mostly For 66 Months This Way The Dead Zone How We Refer

    To That Era
    of My Life

    Pain Teaches
    Great Lessons Indeed
    And Feral Animals Bring
    Back the Call of the Wild One
    With Nature Free Loving It All
    That Breathes So Lost As True A Feral
    Cat Later Diagnosed A Death Sentence
    of Feline Leukemia Brought 10 Years

    Of Lessons From the Call of the Wild to
    me in His 2 Year-Stint or So Wild in the
    Woods of my Home As i Returned to Nature

    Through His Eyes That Only See This Breath of Life Now
    As The Greatest Treasure of Every Heart Beat Now Alive

    Yet my Eyes Still Expand As Leaf Greening Trees Alive Falling
    Through Winter Death Ever Springing Breath Within Each Now

    New Sapling Tree i AM… Every Inhale of Peace Exhale of Love

    Includes No Fears of Separation From All That Is Nature How Humans

    Separate This With All Their Clothes Becoming The Tools They Create

    They Are Where Again Death In Temples is Worshipped More Than Trees

    Of Living

    Leaves

    We Fall
    We Rise Now
    Every Shore We
    Expand Ever Wave Now
    We Dance And Sing Free…

    Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
    Are Broke This Morning An Owl
    Sings in Night of Day Cuckoo Cuckoo…

    Hehe With No Complaints Only Wise Beaks..

    i’ll Just Have to Find Another Place to Copy and
    Paste This For the Record of my Soul Oh First World Humans

    There

    Is Just

    No Escape Hehe…;)

    1. They said Facebook was out.
      I missed it.
      I’m never in.
      Strange to feel unaffected by a non-event
      that has so many feeling lost,
      no compass
      in a wild world
      with rules they don’t understand.

      1. SMiLes Jane ‘The Matrix’ So Large
        And Attached Now to Wings that
        Fly and Fur that Climbs Trees

        So Much More
        Than Flowers
        Attracting

        Birds and

        Bees the Starter

        Went Bad on my Honda
        Civic Prisoner of Cars in Some
        Ways Housed in Bars of Homes

        Trapped Behind Multi-Sizes of
        Screen From 6.1 Inches to 27.1
        Inches of iPhone to iMac Big Screen

        To Samsung 60 inch Screen 8 Years
        Old Now Still Where my Wife Remains

        Trapped The Most Warming Her Hands
        Over DVR Memories From Someone Else’s

        Play

        of Life

        Yet Still This
        Ain’t A Desert Road

        And There is No Need to
        Wait for Paul to Have A
        Vision on a Road to Damascus

        To Wait on Godot Just Got A Call
        And The Honda God Will Be Ready
        For A Fresh Starter Pick-Up Before 6 PM…

        Meanwhile a Squirrel is Teasing me From
        my 24 Inch Window Out into Forever Won’t
        You Come Out and Play Naked Whole Complete
        Enough With me… True With All the Accessories

        Still Locked

        Indoors

        In the
        Other World
        of the Matrix
        Colored So Far
        Out of ‘the Big Blue Room’…

        Where Most Everyone Plays Shows
        ‘Truman’ in Their-Sea-Side-Reflections-Life-Waving
        Jim-Carrey-SMiLes All A Super-Tramp-Long-Way-Home…

        In Far Less
        Now Than

        ‘6 Degrees’
        of ‘Footloose’ Separation…

        Yet More Connections
        Plugged-in Than Ever Before…

      2. Meanwhile
        out in the rural backwater
        where internet flickers on and off
        and there is not enough juice to fuel a TV
        house with lots of wildlife
        no plugs and porcelain light switches
        they said on the radio Facebook was down
        I wondered why it made the news.

      3. Architect Of Anger
        Lost From Nuanced
        In Black And Think
        Algorithm Of

        Facebook

        Of Course

        Programmed

        Like Zuckerberg
        Left Hemisphere

        Restricted

        Talking Heads

        Of Anger To Make
        Bucks off The American

        Dream of Filling Up
        Double Garages From
        What Walmart Stinks

        Leaving New Bought
        4 Wheel Drives Out
        On The Curb To

        Fend

        For

        Themselves
        Oracle is Missing
        From Human Within

        Right Hemisphere Sleeps

        To Sprout Spring
        Green And Colors

        Of Flowers to
        Warm Winter

        Sunshine For
        All That Nature
        Feeds And Breeds

        All That’s Left

        Is Facebook Trash
        Gehenna of Hate

        Fueled
        By Angry
        Black And
        White Left Brain

        Prison This or
        That Hate

        Down

        Down

        The

        Toilet
        Bowl Online…

        Adding A New
        Channel of

        Anger

        On

        BitChute
        Next Reality

        Bites

        Left Out
        RightBraindead

        Right Hand World

        EatS itS own Soylent Green
        Gehenna Trashed Pandemic

        Dead…

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