Bees see more colours than I can
Birds see colours I cannot
conceive
Mantis shrimp see circularly polarized
light that I don’t even understand
Fire chasing beetle sense heat I don’t
feel
Elephants hear what I cannot sense
Moth locates scent miles away
Butterflies taste with their feet
Crocodile sense pressure many
times over my fingers
Killer fly catch prey in space of
my eye blink
His brain process visual
information many times faster than mine
Dolphins echolocate what I cannot
locate
Shark sense electric field
Robins use earth’s magnetic field
to migrate
Dung beetle use milky way galaxy
as navigational aid…
What I see and do not see
Not blind yet not so
What I hear and do not hear
Not dumb yet not so
What I sense and do not sense
Invulnerable yet not so
Yet I claim exception in all my
actions
I am created in god’s image
I am all the million multi-headed,
multi-handed, bigger and smaller gods
I am the wise
Yet I lack the sight, sound and
sense of common place.
Yet I am another magnificent creature in
the vast oasis of life.
