Red Fox Hawk Eyes

RED FOX HAWK EYES

We forget that Independence is an unflattering trait

But an essential one nonetheless

Those truly Independent

Are those who don’t listen

Who realize that we are all

Nervous

Anxious

Frightened by failures and shame

Those truly Independent

Are those who don’t waiver

Who realize that life is full of

Failure

and Shame

Full of those steering you astray

Whether they mean to or not

We are truly Independent

When the words of others

Flow off us like mist

When the sharpened arrows of

Loved Ones

and Enemies alike

bounce off our skin

without drawing blood

or change

or reaction

We are all the Idiot

filled with

Sound and Fury

Signifying Nothing

Saying

Nothing

and those truly Independent

are those who don’t listen

Oren Peleg 2010