Is It By Your Understanding That The Hawk Soars? Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Anyone who thinks
they have a solid grasp
of life should try designing
and making something
remotely comparable to
a hawk or an eagle.

Flying toys with flapping wings
don't even come close.
Those things are made
on assembly lines, part by part,
only to fall apart with repeated use.


Job was reminded
of his smallness
when asked by his Creator,
"Is it by your understanding
that the hawk soars
and spreads his wings
toward the south?
Is it at your command
that the eagle mounts up
and makes his nest on high? " (Job 39: 26-27) .

It makes us humble
thousands of years later.

(Graphic: Wingsdomain red tail hawkflying Pinterest)