The Deer Passed Right Through And Into The Soul

This is the way of it

I am 12 years old

I was born on the 7^th of July

You wouldn’t know it
I could always see beyond the ordinary everyday
But no one believed me

Then one day it happened
That I saw something I shouldn’t

I saw a deer cross the path of someone
     Such that the deer
          Passed right through
               And into their soul

The two become one
And then apart again
In an instant

But the man was altered

The man was altered
Because his Being
Had seen the beauty of another living beast

And

Because of this

          Because of this he had grown
               And diminished in size
                    From the inside out

I whispered…

“Gentle gracious creature

How gracefully you transfer your nature

Peacefully

One to another,”

Then closed my eyes,

And let it drift away.

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