Animals and Us

Could we be animals

our ways might run a somewhat kinder

But all we’d do could prove a bit reserved,

For kindness shows a kind of goodness,

And goodness makes one’s wisdom kinder,

With wisdom, in its turn, appreciation

For all that beauty just suggests;

All we’d done would stay as cage-less,

As misted as a foggy morn.

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Courtesy Kiersta Recktenwald

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