I went for a walk today
and saw a medium size turtle;
it was coming out of the bushes
and wanted to cross the street.
I stopped to greet it,
to admire its gorgeousness,
its brown shell with yellow circles,
its extended neck, yellow color lines
dazzling to my sight.
“Be careful with the cars
as you cross the street”, I said.
I continued my walk not to scare it away,
then I thought for a moment:
I love to walk and see the unexpected,
never knowing with certainty or beforehand
what I might find in the journey,
I imagine the turtle was thinking
the same thing, but like me, it decided
to walk to encounter life.
I was a giant woman in the eyes
of that beautiful turtle, it got scared
when it saw me; when I saw its
beauty and fragile form
wanting to explore and to cross the street,
then it occurred to me at the end,
things can be seen from many
different points of view.