Mada ya wanyama

Nyangumi muuaji anayeitwa Tahlequah
alijifungua na kuvutia ulimwengu.
Ndama wake alikufa dakika thelathini tu baada ya kuzaliwa, kila moja ya dakika hizo zilizobarikiwa ilikuwa sakramenti kwa upendo kwa uzao wake huo.

Lakini sababu halisi ya waandishi wa habari na wapiga picha na mamilioni ya watazamaji kufuata hadithi ya mama huyu, ni jinsi alivyoendelea kuhuzunika.
Baada ya mwaka mmoja na nusu ya mtoto kukua ndani ya tumbo lake, na kazi kubwa ya uchungu, na nusu saa ya kutazamana machoni, Tahlequah aliendelea kumbeba mtoto wake aliyekufa kwenye ncha ya pua yake kwa muda wa siku kumi na saba, akisafiri zaidi ya maili elfu moja katika Bahari ya Salish.
Kutoka kwa ‘The Progeny of Love’ iliyoandikwa na April Tierney, Sanaa ya Lori Christopher 🐋

This is what a King looks like in his last moments of life!
The scene was captured by photographer Larry Pannell, who published this shocking photograph in 2018.
"We found him lying in the grass, exhausted and unable to move. We were no more than five feet from him as he lay dying in the shade of a tree. Dropping my camera we stared at one another locking eyes for what seemed for an eternity. I just wanted him to know that he would not die alone as he struggled to breath, his chest rising only every so often. Then a last twitch of an ear, his last breath, he was gone. The King was dead."
Credit: Larry Pannell.