She said:
If you cling to me you will cling to life,
you will travel and you will not meet
the rhinoceros or the tiger;
you will go without arms and without a shield
into the midst of the combantants.
The rhinoceros will have nowhere to put its horn,
nor the tiger its claws, nor the blade its edge.
Death will find no place.
--Carlos Barbarito, excerpt from "Bestiarium of love" ~