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Okapi

You gaze warily at the camera
Do you know
What it is?
A window to the outside world
A world curious to know you

Millions waiting
To see you
The real you
Fifty years of solitude
Are ended!

Now we see you
In your shy glory
So you’re very real
Even though your relatives
Are scattered
In distant lands
Diluted versions
Of the myth

Now tamed
Not mysterious
Like you



A zebra, a horse and an antelope
All mixed together
As one Okapi.
Keep looking,
With your subtly gentle but fierce
No, intelligent gaze
Into the world
Always longing to know you.

Expressive poem.

In what language is that animal called "Okapi"?

By the way is that a deer?