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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vptwF1nUXE&ab_channel=airshade-Topic

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A dream

Just a dream 

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I dreamt that I was a child again -  

Clad in furs, with my father and I

Selecting knives, and rifles

Before walking out to hunt -  

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A man's knife, or a child's knife,

A man's rifle, or a child's rifle.

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II

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As a child, I chose the larger tools -  

The larger, finer blade, 

The higher caliber weapon,

But, fearing mis-selection 

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Still took both to carry with me. 

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The small, and wieldy,

Opposed to the larger possibility.

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III

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My father followed, holding the pack 

On the basis that when we'd left town

And the roads ended

I would carry it all alone.

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IV

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Before the precipice, we reached a wreck - 

The skeleton of a freighter

That, broken and beached,

Obstructed the gravel path.

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As we crossed it together, I transformed -  

Still a child, but no longer myself,

Still small, and delicate,

With careful, selective eyes,

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But as, instead, outside the one that moved 

Watching from beyond, rather than looking from within.

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Krishna, God Child, 

Deific in all plurality

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When we'd finished crossing

I'd returned back, and the sensation

Of being separate

Had disappeared entirely.

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VI

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When the road ended, and being eager,

I spied movement - the light rustle of small game:

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Sik-Sik - ground squirrel 

Looming before my childlike eyes

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Such an animal wouldn't have been worth the bullet

But because I'd brought both rifles, I could use the smaller caliber to take it.

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VII 

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I wanted to hunt, for the same reason I wanted to leave home alone

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Child to a man - coming of age

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But, besides knowing that what I really sought

Lay beyond,

I chose to hunt immediately, and in my impatience

Loaded the larger caliber 

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Into the smaller gun

And sent the bullet 

Spinning down the barrel 

Only to burst the steel out at the end.

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Do not allow apprehension 

To confuse the purpose of your action;

Move with surety, with clarity, with intention,

And allow not uncertainty 

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To deflect, or distract

From the true aim of your attention:

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Singular in purpose; singular in thought;

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Singular, in affectation.

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