The Target

If a python mesmerized a rabbit,

The little rabbit might say, grinning,
Oh, you’re hungry poor snake!

We met in the jungle. She is a large python and I am a little rabbit. No one would imagine of course, that a big snake and a rabbit greet one another in a busy metropolitan street. So we were supposed to meet only in a deep jungle. The setting of our story was the very jungle from which we can never escape. Being imprisoned in jungle means having to act according to the jungle’s laws, which probably can be called unpublished laws in any language anywhere. Those are to understand automatically, by something like common sense. We are meant to follow those rules. In short, she is a large python. I, a little rabbit. We met somewhere in the jungle. That is the story I am telling you now.

I am quite sure I saw her first. But I am, at the same time thinking that she might be the one who heard my vibrations of footsteps in advance since she has smartest sense of hearing though she is almost blind. I am also good at hearing, but she hardly made a noise. So, she might have been hearing me long ago before I saw her. In contrary, she could not see me clearly in her vision and I could not hear her tiny whistles either. In this natural way, we really met somewhere in the jungle. What does it mean by meet? In general sense, the two people who meet, communicate or deal with each other in a certain common way. But for us, she only could hear me and I only could see her silent. We were emphasizing in different senses. There was no universal language that allowed us to communicate. But as I mentioned, since we were playing according to the natural laws, the lack of language was not an issue for us. Though I could not hear her footsteps, I am okay from my rabbit point of view. I was admiring her beautiful spots on her body. She seemed wet although I had not touched her. She approached me quietly. I have no word to express how she moved. In fact, I was watching, with my full gusto, the most beautiful and unusual creature. Eventually, I found myself in face to face position with her.

As a rabbit, I know by instinct that she could not see me clearly. She might see my tiny shadow. But I am sure she could hear me and navigate my position precisely. We did not have any language to utter. But we are meeting each other. What does the meet stand for between a rabbit and a python? I cannot explain. But I know we are meeting in reality. I could not take my eyes off her. I was absorbed in her fine artistic patterned body. I was gazing at it. Then I moved my eyes to her head. Finally I reach to her brightest eyes. I caught her eyes or she caught mine, I am not sure. Maybe, we caught each other. But once I caught her eyes, I totally could not take my eyes off them. We were gazing at each other for a good while. I have not made a move from my spot since then. I could feel my body shaking and my heartbeats pounding. Anyway, I was just gazing at her.

Now she is hugging me by her huge body with enormous strength. I can feel pains all over my body. Maybe my bones are breaking. Yet, I am sure my heart will never break. I know she wants to hug me passionately and on the other hand, she has no hands and she had to knot me by her body. As I mentioned, this is a natural law that we learn by instinct. I believe she is not willing me to suffer from any pain. I understand, she is just a snake with passion. So I am in pain. To be more precise, it is not that i am suffering pain, but just enjoying the pain. Yeah, I may be a masochistic rabbit and she, a sadist. But here in the jungle, these are laws that we can never betray. We both are just playing an episode of the jungle. Slowly and smoothly, I am sinking in this big snake. I am wet and almost torn into pieces. I could not help thinking that she might be very hungry so that needs me for survival. With this belief, I feel sympathy for her. In fact, I am even grinning in the idea, the poor enormous creature needs particularly me for her survival. But no one on the earth can see my grinning face since it already is tearing into pieces and disappearing in her embrace. If someone could see our episode, what was happening here, he or she may note that “An enormous python mesmerized and swallowed a tiny poor rabbit”. If so, it must be a terrible mistake. You know, here in jungle, we do not use any language. Please do not note our episode by language. 

Tazar (Moonlitpath)