{"sf1_id":732571,"sf2_id":"pnGQRd6e","title":"Because I sympathized with animals...","author":"Werefox Inari Sachi","words":173,"posted_at":"2014-07-19T05:32:00.000Z","tags":["Fox","Philosophy","Poetry","Transformation"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/732571-because-i-sympathized-with-animals","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnGQRd6e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/df/c6/dfc62ece-010d-41cf-a88b-d6bb523265ba","description":"Me trying to condense my reason for identifying as a furry.","content":"This thing came to pass where I was envious.\n\nThis thing came to pass where I thought I was not free.\n\nThis thing came to pass where I saw people were not free.\n\nI perceived there to be some great shame, was I wrong?\n\nI was ashamed of my own desire.\n\nIs my envy misplaced?\n\nSomeone told me I'm not so different.\n\nYet why do I pine for physical difference?\n\nI am thirsty for physical sensation -- my body's alteration.\n\nHave I been fooled?\n\nPragmatism it may not be,\n\nBut can desires ever be wrong?\n\nMust all passions be logical, and not aesthetic?\n\nIf I desire for another, must it be of my own?\n\nDeep, and flirtatious physical envy,\n\nAnd a thirst for return to naivety, primitive reality--\n\nAnd damned, again, the wild sexuality!\n\nThis thing came to pass where I raised my hands,\n\nImagined paws, and said \"fie, I'm done with it,\"\n\n\"String me up and call me a fox in robes.\"\n\nAnd then I dreamed that maybe fox-faced people wouldn't judge.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}