Meeting the Challenge

She is impulsive, improvident, stubbornly
resistant to suggestion. Prudence is not in
her nature. She believes in confronting
life, leaving nothing to chance. She faces
destiny, grasps its shoulders and insists it
heed her desires. Favour her, or not.
Destiny has, unsurprisingly, chosen the
latter, indifferent to her need. And she is
left to forge ahead, not to submit in docile
helplessness. She will make, through her
indomitable will, her very own future.

Impatiently patient, she has vetted, taken
on intimate recognizance, one partner
after another in her need to be cherished.
Failures all; she is prepared, but chance,
which she has challenged grants her no
favours. She invests hopes and years on
one, then another, a veritable succession of
disappointing, failed relationships, then
sheds them all, time after weary time.

Undeterred, she targets herself for a
continuing succession of failures. Throughout
the process, one representative dog, one cat,
one rabbit is rescued from abandonment and
abuse; reflecting her growing contingent of
rejects, her sympathetic coterie of faithfully
adoring helpmeets. Far more dependable and
emotionally fulfilling than their human
counterparts who have, one after another,
broken her heart but not her spirit.