{"id":608,"date":"2014-09-18T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-09-18T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:56:10","slug":"a-tale-of-two-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-tale-of-two-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Tale of Two Wolves&quot; - A Native American Tale\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKpmwR9oo8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Germans a story tell<br \/>\nAmerican natives tell one like it as well<br \/>\nOf two wolves that in us dwell<br \/>\nIn each and every man<br \/>\nThat howl to the sky of our soul<br \/>\nAn in our lives each play a role<br \/>\nIn their own way make mankind whole<br \/>\nHave done so since time began<\/p>\n<p>One causes within us hate<br \/>\nLaziness, makes a man irate<br \/>\nWants, without effort to gain, compensate<br \/>\nThe quick pound without work<br \/>\nThe good fortune of others to begrudge<br \/>\nTo talk of others, and about them to others wink and nudge<br \/>\nWhen seeing the infirm, from our seats to refuse to budge<br \/>\nAnd share with our kind a smug smirk.<\/p>\n<p>The other brings out the best in a man<br \/>\nA man who strives hard to work when he can<br \/>\nHis boss on him can rely, with him can plan<br \/>\nAnd of his boss he has not a bad word.<br \/>\nFor others good fortune he is glad<br \/>\nOf their misfortune he is sad<br \/>\nHe gives his seat, all all that he had<br \/>\nAnd not an ounce of regret in his heart stirred.<\/p>\n<p>Which one, one asks, dominates our soul?<br \/>\nWhich one rules, which makes us cruel or whole<br \/>\nWhich beast of each man has control<br \/>\nOf his mood, his thought and deed?<br \/>\nThe truth of it let me tell<br \/>\nThe Germans say, and the Native Americans as well<br \/>\nThe wolf that dominates us over us has no spell&#8230;<br \/>\nIt is whichever one we feed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germans a story tell American natives tell one like it as well Of two wolves that in us dwell In each and every man That howl to the sky of our soul An in our lives each play a role In their own way make mankind whole Have done &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,446,745,232,880],"tags":[884,883,882,881],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-moral","category-native-american-tales","category-nature-2","category-philosophy","tag-good-and-evil","tag-morals","tag-native-americans","tag-philosophy-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-9O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3322,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/snakes-all-around-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":608,"position":0},"title":"Snakes All Around Us","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"5th December 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of these pages from Ireland will be familiar with Fr Brian D'Arcy's \"\"A Little Bit of Religion\"\" column in the Sunday Word, an Irish Sunday newspaper. 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