SWAN

ACCORDING

TO WHICH TRANSLATION YOU USE

THE SWAN IS CONSIDERED

 AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL

PERHAPS GOD FELT

THAT SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL

SHOULD NOT BE FOOD

WE HAD A SWAN ON OUR LAKE

IT DIED

PROTECTING NEST AND MATE

ECHOES OF

GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE

BUT TO GIVE HIS LIFE

FOR ANOTHER

WHAT HE DID

WAS INSTINCTIVE

AND BRAVE

IN HIS MIND

HE WAS DOING

THE RIGHT THING

WITHOUT BACKING MYSELF

IN SOME PHILOSOPHICAL CORNER

WE OF THE HIGHER ORDER

COULD DO WELL TO LEARN FROM HIM

HE SAW THE RIGHT THING

AND DID IT

WHILE WE

LIKE PAUL

KNOW THE RIGHT THING

AND DO NOT DO IT

KNOW THE WRONG THING

AND DO IT

SO MUCH FOR THE HIGHER ORDER

SWAN ONE

MAN ZIP

IN MANY WALKS OF LIFE

IF SOMEONE HAS A FAULT

THEY WORK ON IT

A GOLFER

 PRACTICES HIS SWING

A PIANIST

PLAYS ENDLESS SCALES

A PILOT

 WORKS ON UNDERSTANDING HIS AIRCRAFT

THESE AND MANY MORE

WORK TO REMOVE A FAULT

BUT IN OTHER WAYS

WE ARE LIKE THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH

WHO DID NOT KNOW

THEIR LEFT FROM THEIR RIGHT

AS DUMB AS THEY WERE

THEY RESPONDED

TO THE CALL

TO DO THE RIGHT THING

WHAT EVER THE COST

FRANK A VOLLMER