The Fragile Circle - Grey Oaks Equine Sanctuary

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives
more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle,
easily and often breached.

Unable to accept its awful gaps we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality,
never fully understanding the necessary plan.

The life of a horse, often half our own,
seems endless until one day.
That day has come and gone for me,
and I am once again in a somewhat smaller circle.

- Irving Townsend 'The Once Again Prince'