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Dogs can detect smells
up to a hundred thousand times
better than we can.

Snakes can feel our footsteps
vibrating through their skulls
while we're approaching on land.

While the moth and the bat and owl,
and the elephant
and the horse,
not forgetting the dolphin too,
hear more sounds
much more clearly
than any of us do.

The eagle's eyesight is so keen,
its four to eight times better,
and far more powerful
than that of a human being.

Whilst cats,
and many nocturnal animals,
and the snake
and our neighbourhood frog,
can see well in dark places.

We human beings are feeble
compared to animals around us
for we neither hear,
nor see,
nor smell,
as keenly as they do.

Our world is dark
and restricted,
in contrast to theirs,
we move about in a narrow realm,
Living in sensory darkness.

20191026
#Poetry #PoetryByHaroldHuang #Inktober

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