Sweet Baraka
When our tour
guide told us
we’d pet a
black rhino,
I thought she
was joking.
You don’t pet
huge aggressive
rhinos
with big, long
horns.
But Baraka,
a kindly
gentleman rhino
lives at Old Pejeta
conservancy.
Blind in both
eyes,
one lost in a
fight
the other to
cataracts.
He greets visitors
gladly,
especially when
they give him
some plants to
munch.
In Swahili,
Baraka means “blessings.”
I don’t know if
he feels blessed,
blind and away
from other rhinos.
But being
allowed to pat him on the head
and scratch
behind his ears,
I felt truly
blessed.
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