Animal
Hymns

The Rescue

The sea turtle madly
Flapped his watery wings,And broke the rippled reflections,
Disappearing into the bluish depths —
Finally.How grand he must have felt
After his powerful escape!You see, an eternity ago,
He was tangled in a fragment
Of some slimy rope netting.Hopelessly, he hung,
Suspended on top
Of this vast underworld
Waiting to dieA terrible turtle death.But along came a floating circus
Of chattering demons, loud and raucous —
And sighted the exhausted mess.They pulled the prisoner aboard,
And carefully cut his bonds.Then gently,
They dropped the fluttering turtle
Onto the ocean’s surface —
With loud acclaim.But the thought never passed
Through that tiny mind,
That the babbling devils of death —Were, in fact,
Just angels
Having a party.

— LD —

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