Panther Medicine

Big cat energy Silent and wise Your eyes met my soul And I came alive From shifting sands You followed me home I brought you along Embracing Unknown But the People Protested decried and objected "We can't have this wild thing in our midst!" The "civilized" choice I silenced my knowing To follow the tribe And their rules For life You left peacefully And I ached with deep sorrow Missing the thick presence Of your powerful grace My Kind couldn't imagine A CALL to MORE You opened my mind Sending reason out the door Precarious green island Lush but unstable The dwellers herein die Believing this Fable: "Familiar Is Better than Foreign" "What was Dictates our limits to what can be" But Panther and I have a secret we share: Sometimes the Unknowns Are the best ones to dare