Once Upon a Gorilla

walk before yoo leap

Once Upon a Gorilla

 

While rummaging in the jungle in

search of food and water I stumbled

over an anteater and fell into a thicket of thorns---

 

I howled in pain as the thorns pricked and prickled

at my skin. As I lay there dripping blood from

head to toe a gorilla happened to stroll by~

 

She stared at me long and hard as if struggling

with the decision to either help me or let me lie in

the bed of thorns that I made for myself---

 

She picked me up and carried me on her back

to her hearth and home. My wounds were tended to

and food and drink of bananas and tea were laid out

on the ground before me~

 

As I was devouring the bananas and gulping down the tea

the bemused gorilla sat down beside me

and in the language of the gorillas’ said---

 

“ooh ooh ah ah ooh ah ah ooh”…

 

(Translation: Jonahs the Anteater suffered serious wounds

when you carelessly stepped on his head. Thankfully he will recover.)

 

I bowed my head in shame. Her words stung to the bone---

I apologized profusely for my rash actions and swore

an oath to watch where my feet were going when on the

jungle path~

 

She patted me on the head and bid me farewell-

and made me promise to smell the roses and not

let the thorns block my way…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RC

08/19/15