I am your equal.

 

I am a wild creature that can never be like you.

 

I have heart, courage, and the game spirit that is my heritage, and I will be respected.

 

I will be taught, and I will please, and maybe in time I will be your intimate. 

 

But I will never be your possession. 

 

Mine is a fierce love, which knows no mercy for failure. No sympathy for weakness.

 

I have come from the desert with its closeness to the spirit of nature which you do not understand.

 

I was born of the Wind, mine is a warrior spirit.

I cannot be humiliated in punishment or defeated even in death.

 

For my spirit lives on in my children's children.

 

written by David Gardner upon the death of *Ibn Moniet El Nefous