Beastly Ideas Poem by Laurence Overmire

We humans like to think of ourselves
As being
Better than the animals
Smarter, and undoubtedly closer
To God.

Yet animals are forever true
To their God-given natures
Communicating well-enough
With canny precision
In languages we are perhaps

Too arrogant
To understand.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in World's Strand, An International Anthology of Poetry,2006; Report From X-Star 10, Indelible Mark Publishing,2009]