IF…<\/p>\n
Could I but glimpse through the eyes of a horse<\/p>\n
Any horse<\/p>\n
Breathe through his, her nose, to smell as strongly as they!<\/p>\n
Any horse, even old Cobweb, with his rather poor sense of smell –<\/p>\n
Just for a moment, to hear what they can hear…<\/p>\n
Swivel my ears around like that – like eyes towards the sound I<\/p>\n
Follow a mouse as it scurries across the stable behind me.<\/p>\n
To chew sweet meadow herbs in the cool dew<\/p>\n
But O to feel the things they feel<\/p>\n
The hair – the skin,<\/p>\n
To feel the fly and know it is not a horse-fly.<\/p>\n
The muscle, the beating heart. To feel! Move as a horse!<\/p>\n
The effort as my shoulders lift me up over the jump.<\/p>\n
The rider bumps my back as I trot…<\/p>\n
Ah, but most of all to know what things they think.<\/p>\n
Could I be a horse, just for a day?<\/p>\n
I should learn more in each moment than man can teach me in a lifetime.<\/p>\n
A.G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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