"Been around the world and found that only stupid people were breeding..."

I just can't understand how some people are so clueless!  Yes, I get that everyone's functioning the best they can under their personal circumstances in life, but come on!

I think I now sort of get how a parent feels when trying to warn their children against making certain mistakes - it's frustrating yet impossible to accomplish.  I guess everyone has to learn on their own, but I hope for their sake that they listen to the wisdom of others.

I guess I just needed to rant a bit, thanks for listening.

On a completely seperate note:

Muscular creature of open dreams, shift-shape

divine where wild horses roam free – untouched,

un-humanized on Isle de Sable.

Die undisturbed, stormy and boundless and unruled

Know the moon-tides as you know your mother, whose

equine beauty did birth you into this land of chaos.

Know you are the last, the death-change of the Earth as

we know her – the beginning and the end of the cycle of

death and rebirth.

No one will hold you captive here – your sisters have

bared that burden gladly and serve their purposes well.

Yours is to dance the ebb-tide, and stay wondrous

in mystery – a beautiful, dangerous, tangible myth

encompassing fullness, magic, wisdom, and mystery-

all sides of the Goddess, all realms of the Earth.

In you she lives, and dies, and lives again – steed,

centaur, stallion of the plains,

Epona’s beloved.

(c)2006 Marylin Houle

Published in the June 2006 issue of 'Verse Afire'