Three stags

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Three stags 🔗

Three crossing,
The first two fast,
The last one stops,
Eyes locked.

Gazing to the past.

Of beasts,
Prehistoric,
Wandering the land,
Not ours.

Shared uneasily.

A time
Forgotten,
A feeling
Lost,
A moment
Glimpsed.

The stag stares.
I shout
To the woods,
To safety,
Away,
Enclosed.

The stag stares.
A moment longer
Uncomprehending,
But perhaps
Feeling
The injustice,
The change,
The alien.

Into the woods
I follow
But soon
They are gone.