Something Special Happens... Poem by Reva Kern

This poem needs an explanation.....
I was riding my horse in the arena concentrating on our dressage exercise and looking down at my horse's neck to see if it was in the proper position when she stopped in mid- stride, calmly and quietly which made me look up, and that's when I saw the cat.The fact that my horse wasn't frightened or even startled that it appeared suddenly meant to me that she was familiar with it.That it had obviously been hanging around the ranch.At the time, I didn't know it was a mountain lion (which is also called the Puma)thinking all mountain lions looked like the African lion with the long shaggy mane which obviously this cat did not have.I was thinking maybe it was a bobcat.In any event, after a slight hesitation, I urged my horse to continue our practice and by the time we made it around the circle again, it was gone.When I returned home I called the Mountain Conservancy to inquire as to what kind of a cat I had seen and was told not only that it was a mountain lion, but that it was a very special experience because they were hardly ever seen.....and that is what inspired me to write the poem.