Though I climbed to higher ground to escape man’s latest machinations, my second-in-command paced to find me.
Rather than greetimg me with wagging tail and renewed faith from my recent proven accomplishments, for a second time since the herd left I found myself backed up against a boulder defending myself under attack, pressed by fear in lost pack security.
As I self defended, I countered in every way my exhausted brain could think to dodge the blows against my reason, but youth’s unrelenting desperation kept hitting me in waves and my wearied mind took damage.
In last attempt to keep from harming them from my own fear’s reactivity and hurt rage at being turned against, I disengaged and slipped past them – and kept running to stay out of reach while as I distanced it hurt my soul to hear their howls of frustration.
I am accused now of abandoning my pack’s needs. I am accused of negligent leadership – as if I have not been right here protecting them and foraging resources for continued survival despite my untended injuries.
My heart feels outcast from my clan again, and it grieves me that youth is so inclined to turn against wiser elders during difficulties.
Man has been efficient in cutting families off from loving cohesion, ensuring our tribes remain divided and weakened in numbers.
At first, they murdered us out of fear and in the name of their progress. Now they starve us due to pure greed and intolerance – for anything Wild, Man must be sure to destroy.
Is it a type of afflicted illness?
For surely Man is insane.
Yet it is up to us to rally against this madness to find our peace again.