“Without Fear”
There was a little boy who walked across the road
He wanted to see where the wolves had gone
His mother warned him not to wander
Nature is dangerous and needs to be feared
Still, he only looked back once, then sprinted
Between the trees into the darkened corners
Leaves formed a canopy over his head
He delighted in that secret place, and ran on
He saw a flash of grey fur and a shimmer
As the sun flashed off the wolves’ laughing eyes
Without fear he stepped into a clearing
An upsweep of flowers white and yellow and blue and red
A place where cinnamon perfumed plants grew
The boy stopped, his mother’s warning echoed
And fear grew, and he picked up a stick
A wolf cub ran up to him and pulled on his pant leg
Fear had him raise the stick above his head
Fear had him swing the stick at the pup
Its mother looked up, when she heard the yelp
The eyes of its mother showed fear
Fear that had shown in his own mother’s eyes
Fear that that placed that stick in his hand
Fear that now mirrored in the pup’s eyes
The boy dropped to his knees and cried
He cried for seeing a threat that wasn’t there
He cried for what he lost by allowing fear, control
He cried for the pup he had hurt
The mother wolf trotted over to her pup
She licked his wounds until he wiggled happily
Then she turned to the boy and licked his tears away
When the sun touched the edge of the earth
And the sky turned pink, then red, then purple, then black
The boy came out of the trees
His mother was waiting, tortured, with fear
He raced to her and tired to explain what he saw
She did not hear him
She clung to him in a panic
He patted her back and hugged her shaking shoulders
Then he pulled away, and looked back towards the trees
…without fear
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Remember, June 21st World Peace and Prayer Day. I posted a poem on June 4th. Take a minute and send out a prayer for the earth, a prayer to stop the oil spilling in to the Gulf and our oceans and all our lives.
Take a moment, one second, to pray. Pray for the earth to sustain.
