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POEM FOR A HORSE

Do you remember a time when you were just born and life was full and new?
Do you remember the joy of discovery as each sunrise greeted you?
With your Mother you held your head up high as if you were aware
That your beauty, your grace was like a song, a sweetness in the air.
You strutted, you snorted, you galloped. You did as horses do.
Life was what you embodied and living it was all you knew.
Do you remember the confusion, when your Mother grew ill and died?
Did you mourn the loss of the nurturing one? Do horses grieve inside?
Do you remember your pain and suffering as your sickness grew and grew?
Did you reach out to the greener pastures for the release they promised you?
For a long dull time you wandered in and out of the gates of death
Did the herd keep calling, did you wish to go home to escape the pain and stress?
The light in your eyes grew dimmer, till the night when I silently crept
Into your body, into your heart, and showed you joy, although I wept.
I showed you the meaning of all I knew, of life, of running free,
I breathed for you, I ran with you, I was you and you were me.
Then spirit worked its lawless magic, your spark burst into light
And you turned around and left the call of the herd and returned to life.
You walked through the seasons of the horse. Did you grow to feel your heart
Beat strong and full with the breath of all that your ancestors could impart?
Your potential, your reasons, your essence of life - you inhaled, in the gallop through,
This gift of life, your reality - Was it all that I showed to you?
Did you ever once feel the wind in your face, life’s heat flooding through your veins?
Feel your heart beat’s power, your blazing hooves, flying to nowhere and back again….
Then you knew what it was to be a horse, to fulfil your soul’s desire
For the rawness of the gift of life was worth the walk through fire….
But it seemed the seed was planted then and darkly lay unseen
Deep and silently growing till it poisoned the roots of our earthly dream.
So the lure of green hills has called you now. I bid you sad farewell
With aching heart for your suffering, but knowing all so well
That you knew the touch of the wind on your face; the beat of hooves and heart,
That in the elusive cycle of the horse, you came to play your part.
So when the shadows grow long and cool on the earth that knew your touch,
I smile and remember a little horse with whom I shared so much.
For once you felt your horse’s heart, and I felt it too,
While you received the gift of life, I received the gift of you.

sunshiine,

This is very beautiful, thank you for sharing.
Is the horse an animal totem for you?

peace, love & healing
angellover

Thanks Angellover...
Yes, Horse has been with me since childhood... I have only in the last few months finally been without a herd of them around me (I miss them) but will get a few to come home soon.
Eagle is my other totem and has been there with me for over 8 years.
You gotta love these messengers!
They inspire me too, with their simplicity and honesty.
and their acceptance of who they are and all there is...
Sunshiine