Day 16: Little Cow

little cow
always dreamed
of jumping the moon
just to see what it was like
to fly so high

so he asked of feathered chicken,
"you can fly
what's it like flying over the moon?
what can you see
when you fly so high?"

but chicken clucked
"cluck, cluck, cluck
chickens cannot fly
we just hover and hop
and then we come crashing down"

and so little cow
went to the sheep of the field
and said, "do you know
who would know,
what's it like to fly so high?"

the sheep bowed their heads
shook off their woolen backs,
"no, no, but have you tried
the spider in the tree?
she seems to be wise in all we know"

so by the tree
little cow saw black widow
and he asked, "what is it you see
up in your tree?
do you feel like you can fly up high?"

black widow rubbed
just two of her many legs
in unison she said, "dear little cow
i am not nearly so high,
just a man's height and surely no more."

little cow he just moo'd
and knew maybe he would never know
what it's like to jump so high
over the moon just to see what it's like
to fly so high

but that night
sleeping standing
little cow dreamt of jumping up and over the moon
and he knew dreaming
was what it meant to fly so high

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is this the happiest poem i have ever wrote?