deer and dear humans

can deer have had thousands

upon thousands of generations

without a philosopher among them?

has it been the size of the brain

or acceptance of culture that what

is good enough for father

is and should be

good enough for son?

or fatalism in religion

allowance that all is pre-determined

and useless to struggle against?

or combinations of all the above

that styme the lone maverick

when he tries to question?

dear human beings have not

been advancing so well recently

seeming satisfied to blame, victimize

and hate                          

theron

i asked for help understanding

from a man raised in a different

culture, a worldview i do not grasp

for my characters are men

of that tradition and i want them

to be true to what they believe

not caricatures from my prejudice

my friend answered with a book

of his own with depth of finding

self in the tradition of battle

so foreign to his own sense of being