The White Buffalo
Art by Daniel Eskridge (
She is a prayer
in service, a song
in offering
her young nose holds the leash of this prayer
her hump huge from other’s burden
her fur meant for another’s skin
her meat and breath for the taking, giving
her sacred bundle of bones twined with smoke
her legs ready, thighs thick
lips singing, this happy holy trek
but on her purposeful path
she slips on rubble
prayer on the wrong lips
her fur burnt by an odd blaze
hunched, burdening meant for other backs
her leash caught on another’s finger
her bundle scattered unmattered
offered to smaller than her shine
she stumbles thus on the soil
directionless, she turns
until
guided by all directions
she stands, shattered
and herself she mends
building her bundle
gluing her bones
stitching her flesh
combing her fur grey
she sings the same prayer
I am an offering
I keep on the path
till found, my ‘right altar.
by mansi kakkar
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written as a song for fellow white buffalos.
Thumbnail Photo by Yannick Menard on Unsplash