Ode To Victor Hugo (52) (The Miserable) wolf-Litter Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Wolf-Litter Javert

Animals are nothing
but portrayal of our virtues and vices,
made manifest to our eyes.
God displays animals to us
to give us food for thought.
God has not made animals educable
in the full sense of the word.
Granted the supposition that in every man
there is contained a species
of the animal kingdom,
we may at once place Inspector Javert.
The Austrian peasants believe that
in every wolf -litter there is a dog-welp
which the mother kills,
Because otherwise when it grows larger,
it will devour the rest of her young.
Endow this dog with a human face
and you have Javert!

Freyad Hugo
(Dutch writer, translator, novelist, columnist, political analyst, poet)
Heerenveen
October,2021