A baby, fallen from the nest, frightened of everything; even gentle, fond protection, trembling so much that friendly caring became cruel. Our efforts to feed nuts, and anything other than that, all were suspect. Touching it, not touching it, all failed to reassure it that we wanted to be friendly and play with it. Nothing worked until we let it escape, even as we feared that it would become instant prey.
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Bhashwati wrote:
How scared it looks of the unfamiliar protection that is being proffered.
Instantly
brings to my terribly troubled mind's eye the millions of refugee
infants and children who find themselves at the receiving end of
conflicts they have no conception or comprehension of and ejected and
evicted from the familiar environs of their short life they have only
fear and mistrust of the entire human world.
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