Saturday, April 1, 2017

imitating the cougar



help me imitate the patient placidness

and the love that let goes

inbuilt in psyche controlling the strong

the swift, and the slender mother cougar



let the same permeate my mind and nerves

pervading my life even as i prepare

my only daughter for her life ahead

knowing, at the end i cannot live



my daughter’s life!

help me, then, learn my lessons

well from the truly self-governing

sage of the jungle: the cougar!



© henry victor     20.09.2003





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