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Ursus Maritimus ... I entered your world in quietude, slipping through the granular, soft. Long slats to feet parting the frozen. Cold of a previously unknown Extreme, nipping, sharp, the epidermis with ardor. A Mid-May akin to February, homeward, first warning of extrinsic ire, ignored. Hours of Similar (sobering) revelations ensued, supplanted by days, weeks, Moons ... reality - icebound and born of abiding trial. The basic Elements staggering, swallowed by the providence around me. A Vastness beyond vast, afar ... crushing cold of limitless value, each Sunrise a new contingency for measure of my insignificance. How I Adored you for your beauty - such reward for the naked eye, there Amidst a denuded struggle. Shaped by eons of selection into a Creation of perfect form and ease, as at home with desolation as I at a warm hearth and aliment. Moving sprite through your environs, All senses attuned to the mind's axis ... at once knowing and known, Master of a savage domain. Every dynamism a fluid dance, every Steamed puff of exhalation a waif of delicacy, bespoken. Do not the Gods aspire to such? If there were deities afforded such barren and Bleak scapes, it would be none other than you - as exquisitely Magnificent and divine as the forbidding but breathtaking element Around you, my brother. Yet, I fear I have doomed you, for others Will now follow ... others who find no such elegance in anything But graft and greed. By the simple act of watching I may have Sealed your fate, firm and grim. So, I will not turn to admire you As I leave ... but rather keep you forever as a phantom in my mind And heart and longings - to let you devour my spirit and join with You, ever after straining to hear the echo of your lonely, distant Growl, the one that so often haunts my thoughts and meanderings, Dark and cold in the arctic night, dark and cold in the willows ... Deep and frozen and dreaming, of your gleaming and breathless Beauty. If but mine to touch ... to know. Forgive me and farewell ... Brother Bear.
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