I just read an incredible story of a diver who was suddenly surrounded by an angry pod of dolphins. He didn’t know what was happening until he went underwater and saw a great white shark lurking nearby. The dolphins surrounded the diver and pushed him to shore, saving his life. I just think thats incredible that animals feel that sense of duty to help other mammals. So I wrote this poem:
Good Samaritans
If a pod of dolphins
can feel danger
vibrating underwater,
where the bare legs
of a diver dangle
and send floods of scent
to the looming jaws
of a great white,
and can place themselves
before the darting Lamnidae
races to sink its teeth
into foreign flesh,
surrounding the diver
and eventually
pushing him to land,
why
do I hesitate
when the elderly woman
drops her dollar bill
in aisle 8
of Bargain Mart?
That was an excellent post today. Thanks so much for sharing it. I
really enjoyed reading it very much. You have a wonderful day!
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That’s an amazing story with the dolphins, and I like how you incorporated that with the speaker’s own hesitation on helping another, when the dolphin would do so without.