the other night...thursday last week, i came upon a most beautiful moth....huge, with rust brown and multi-cloured wings, triangulated in their form. where it was situated its life was at risk, so i encouraged it onto my hand so i could lead it out and into freedom in the warm night air.
it didn't want to leave my hand, choosing instead to walk along my finger and to my knuckles before situating itself there, its body vibrating noticeably. it wasn't afraid, that i could tell, at least, of being with me since it was resolutely determined not to leave me.
finally, i was able to get it to sit on the concrete abutting the railing-this after i tried vainly to get it to cling to a screw i'd found...it simply walked over it onto my hand! and again...and again.
upon being placed onto the concrete it took to flight, so huge it was that as it performed fly-bys with the outer light it cast these massive shadows-not unlike a bat...
last night i was at the same station and for some reason found myself looking down....to a moth-the very moth from the week before-except it was back inside, but on the floor this time. i reached down and as i started to pick it up, it walked into my hand and sat there, the vibrating not as perceptible.
i looked at it closely as i started towards the doors to release it once again, and discovered it had an injury in its abdomen, with the yellowish organs having protruded, and crusted over. i was crushed, not sure what to do-should i put it out of its misery, or leave it to its fate, whatever that would entail?
this moth, upon observing it, was seemingly not in any misery; it was quite animated, walking and strutting along my hand, seemingly very happy to be there. i obviously, and sadly, couldn't spend much time with it, so again i placed it outside on the concrete...it again didn't want to be left alone.
the bonds we form with other individuals have the ability to humble us in the purity of the very relationship formed. no matter that they can be, and are often trans-species in their existence, and perhaps even because of it, they are to be treasured and reveled in, for they open our hearts, our minds and our souls to the concept of life being universal...and of sole importance, no matter the individual, or the species.
it is the one thing we all share, really-even as there are such similarities among all species and individuals...it should be the force that unifies and protects us and our world(s)...
why doesn't it then?
