Large Fierce Mammal

Study of life reveals how powerfully energetic it is, and how it comes with its own sort of momentum.

In raising a child, from the moment of birth the child’s life energy, bestowed by its parents, is literally a force of Nature. This force grows as the child grows, and as physicality outstrips understanding, will inevitably come to be expressed in ways that are counterproductive to safety and demanding of good management. The same can be said of raising a puppy to the full flower of Doghood.

Today’s short verse deals with a pair of siblings, and is in no way based on the two Small Fierce Mammals of my own Fathering. Before anyone runs off with the idea that my references to dark and fairer have anything to do with race, calm your gonads and settle your strife right now. It’s actually a reference to the hair colour of two puppies I’m aware of, and their ill advised adoption.

I suppose it could just as easily have been inspired by simply observing the fine human specimens one sees abroad in the land, now coming to sexual maturity if not actual adulthood, and who seem to represent the culmination of some noble yet horribly wrong headed experiment in child rearing. It wasn’t, but that works too.

Offspring

By LFM

One sibling was dark,
The other one fairer.
The first was a trial,
The other an error.