Let’s make sure to treat this year gingerly,
take him for slow walks in the cold,
a handful of oats and loose harness,
not gallop through too fast.
Love him a little bit each day,
but not so much that his broken
leg keeps you from the gun.
The year will carry you
but is not the only one,
there are others waiting beyond
the mountains in the unbroken dark.

-C.S. Henderson