Giant Footsteps
By Brian Busta
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.

Giant Footsteps
By Brian Busta

Brian Busta is PAWS' elephant supervisor
Read PAWS saddened by loss of gentle giant Sabu, our oldest Asian bull elephant

In Memory of Sabu
November 1, 1982 to January 11, 2012

dark grey, towering tall.

a mountain walks, on a mountain
steady of pace,
persistent in your course.

every move determined,
every touch without recrimination.

from a life of anonymity,
to a life respected, admired.

with bamboo and trees to munch,
water to splash or float in.

turkeys to chase,
deer to face off to,
and boys to rumble with.

never having known your wild home,
i hope life on the mountain,
lived up to the dream.

silver on white on grey
a presence seen, felt,
and forever remembered.

giant footsteps left in the sand
and in my heart.

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