California Chrome

People and Horses
are like people and people
You can bemoan the fate of kept horses
  racing horses
  as our own
We are the same

Try this
  Look
   but don't see a horse
   see a person there instead
 Now look elsewhere
   and see the same thing
    worse even
     unimaginably worse

You can bemoan the fate of racing horses
 It would be like  bemoaning the rain cloud
   or the snatched bird
     fish
      cat
       rat

The horse
  like the dog and cat
    bugs, birds and others
       plants, microbes (do think I'm mad)
          speaks to the human heart
The connection between horses and humans
   creatures with heart
   is  wondrous
     wonderful
     mysterious
     heartfelt

Horses race
  People race
    People race horses
 for me there is heart
  the feeling heart
   the listening heart
    the seeing heart
      the speaking heart
       the writing heart
         the connected heart

I have learned many things
  discovered even more mysteries
   wonderings about eloquent truths hiding in plain sight
    
I cry for all kinds of reasons
   a dead bird
    a horse in a stable
       life lost to circumstance
        dreams coming true
          the heart that runs like California Chrome