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Friday, October 23, 2009

Sweet Surrender


Update: Years ago I watched an award winning documentary about a Bushman tribe. One of the sequences was of a man hunting a buck. He pursues the buck on foot for five hours - running all the time. Eventually the buck is too tired to carry on. It finds a little gully and tries to hide under a tree. The bushman, (who b.t.w my Western friends, looks like he's just walked to the corner shop), approaches the buck quietly. A split second before he releases his arrow the scene cuts to a close up of the buck's one eye. I murmured in recognition of what I saw there....

(We need to take a break here... the gods have arrived, dressed in italics again - I just cant fathom it! It seems they're in a hurry).

Good movie that. We were there. Your 'Update' a bit long-winded. Couldn't get a word in edgewise. Thought we'd fix it. Here's a prayer. Post it. Urgent. Can't stay. In a rush, in a rush... Ta da!


Dear Deer
When the hearts of humans
tremble and quiver
When all they can do is shake and shiver
Please show them how
to surrender with grace
When the huntsman takes aim
at the end of the chase.



Let's speak again just now*

*
South African time meaning soon-soon, later, whenever


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