What If They Had Found a Cliff Instead

Thousands of baby turtles followed each other into the sea that day Where a large turtle-eating dragon hid three feet under the surface, waiting. She gulped them down in droves, enjoying their taste. For it was everything! Sensitive Turtle had a bad feeling about following, So she strayed north, refusing to go into the sea. Her sister got snotty with her, demanding to know “what was wrong with her”. “I have a bad feeling,” she said. Her sister snorted, and picked up her step. But other psychic turtles who also felt something was amiss suddenly began following Sensitive Turtle north. There were a hundred and sixty-seven turtles who followed Sensitive Turtle that day, they were the survivors, and found A new sea, one without a large turtle-eating dragon. “But what if they had found a cliff instead and had fallen off the edge?” My grandchild asked me. “Ah,” I told her, if you follow your heart, If you heed the messages your soul gives you, You would never fall off the edge,” I told her. “You would sprout wings and fly.”