The Peasant and the Bear

Tanya Guleria

by Tanya Guleria

Story

Long ago in farest ends

A peasant and a bearess were friends

They shared all troubles and all good,

And their friendship was all truth.


But once the bearess was very polite

And decided her friend to invite

To come to her abundant fiest,

Where man would celebrate with beast.


There was a lot of food and wine;

The human ate and drunk as swine;

For her the hosting was a pleasure;

The bearess was as friend real treasure.


And on the other day the bearess asked the peasant

If something in her home was too unpleasant

The peasant said he didn’t want to make her sad,

But something in her home smelled very bad.


The bearess took a knife and hurt her paw,

Some weeks and months went ago,

She asked the peasant once to test

If from the wound there was some rest.


He checked her skin with greatest care

And in the end he told the bear:

He saw no scar and felt no flaw

On the skin or muscles of the paw.


“No wound leaves such a painful trace

As words which lack respect and grace.”

© Tanya Guleria 2024-01-28

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Novels & Stories
Moods
Emotional
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