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Recorded Reading (0:57): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ai0d5kztxj7sehoanqeja/Elephant-God.mp3?rlkey=esx83iajoutfg1c5aow7n1agb&st=6e06b2ar&dl=0

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Elephant God

A legend that all children know
A timeless one, and elegant
Has to do with four blind men
And an elephant

One felt its trunk, and he declared
The creature long and snaky be,
But the one who felt an ear
Could not make himself agree

And the one who felt a leg
Thought the other two were nuts:
This beast was like a living tree
No ‘ifs’ or ‘ands’ or ‘buts’!

And so it went — and goes today —
About that which we all are blind
We feeling, like those four men were,
To know of the Divine

Instead of just admitting
That none of us can really see
We seem bent on proving
How contentious we can be!

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