I wander far to seek and think,
and rarely find the answer I
was looking for, but often delve
another just as needful of
solution. I recall a day
I thought that man endured above
the whole of Earth in beast or plant.
My walk that day did chance upon
a hummingbird out sipping blooms
of golden yellow honeysuckle.
I thought: here are the frailest things
that God has given roots or wings,
and yet they have endured not knowing
love or hate, and feeling no
regret if we had never met.
I was as frail as they I knew,
and not the stronger for a brain,
but likely weaker for the pain
that I could feel that they could not.
Confrontation
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