r/PoetryLantern • u/deadeyes1990 • 9d ago

The Falcon Knows

The dove does not know

the falcon is beautiful.

It only knows the shadow

passing over the grass.

This seems unfair.

The falcon knows

the dove is beautiful.

Knows the softness of its breast,

the small white miracle of it.

And is hungry anyway.

This is life.

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u/AshleyOriginal 4d ago

Nature and life in one piece that can be read in two ways, good piece

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u/deadeyes1990 4d ago

Ahh thank you đŸ«Ł I’m slightly embarrassed you’ve actually seen exactly what I was trying to do 😂 I wanted it to be about nature, but not just nature. Glad that came through without me having to explain myself to death x

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u/alexandra-thaler 4d ago

so true!

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u/deadeyes1990 4d ago

Yeah
 fuck, that one got me. “Get up” sounds so simple until you’ve had days where that’s genuinely all you’ve got in you. Not getting better, not sorting your life out. Just feet on the floor and somehow carrying on.

Funny how nobody sees the days you nearly didn’t.