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Yah te hay (Children's Story)

This is the story of Yah te hay
He was given this name because…
Well, that’s all he could say!

And though he was all of five years old,
“Yah te hay" was all he’d ever said
Or so I’ve been told

In today’s day and age this might be considered a “cute” stage
But he belonged to the Kikemlo Tribe,
Who are KNOWN for their hunter’s stealth, and warrior’s pride
They were proud of their strength and proud of their might
And since babes, had been trained to hunt and to fight

Their children didn’t play with normal kid toys
It was bows (and arrows) for the girls,
And spears for the boys

When offered these weapons of war for play,
Yah te hay would shake his head sadly and say,
“Yah te hay, Yah tah hay, Yah tah HAY!”

Because he didn’t like to hunt or to fight,
The Kikemlo tribe thought he wasn’t quite right
And then saying only his name time and again
Made them quite sure they were right about him

He was taunted and teased by the Kikemlo Kids
So when he saw them coming, Yah te hay ran and hid

They called him a coward
They thought him afraid
But they didn’t know about the other friends that he’d made
For while he was playing alone in the woods
He played with those to whom his words were clearly understood

The woodland creatures were his secret friends
He preferred their company to games of war and violence

He played with the possums
He fished with the bears
He danced with the wolves,
And slept in their lairs
His words were clear to his animal friends
And to THEM it didn’t sound like he was only saying his name
Over and over and OVER again

The bunnies found him funny
To the deer, he had no fear
The wolves thought him wise,
And to the chattering chipmunks, he always lent an ear
The animals knew him to be caring
They knew him to be brave
The bears looked forward to his visits
And he always brought gifts of berries to their cave

His furry friends thought the WORLD of him.

But when he would return to his Kikemlo home,
His company was not sought, and the kids left him alone

His family loved him dearly, and tried hard to understand
Especially his father who was the chief, and great warrior in the land
He didn’t know WHAT to do with his gentle son
Who had no interest in hunting
And thought animals were “fun.”

So one day Yah te hay’s dad,
(Grey Wolf was his name)
Took his son camping, to teach him to hunt game
A foot from a rabbit
A Mountain Lion’s tooth
A grizzly bear’s claw,
If brought home by the 5 yr old youth
Would make his son know the pride of the hunter,
Or so Grey Wolf thought…
He considered himself the teacher,
but it was his son from whom the lesson was taught...

Yah te hay liked the feet on the rabbit
And bear claws were cool
Cougar’s teeth were really neat,
Though covered with drool

But he didn’t want to hurt his furry friends just to prove he was tough
And was more than happy to let the animals keep all their “stuff”

So after father and son had been camping for days
They hadn’t seen ONE animal
Because the boy had secretly warned them all away!

Poor Grey Wolf had nothing to hunt, and no one to fight,
So he just sat staring at the fire each night
He didn’t know WHAT to do with the absence of prey,
So the boy filled in their time teaching his dad how to play

They swam in the river
Climbed trees on the land
Played catch with pine cones
And built castles with sand

The child was the teacher
And the lesson was F-U-N “fun.”
As the father learned how to play with his son

The animals watched their play from their hiding places
And if possible, we would have seen shock on their fuzzy woodland faces

One raccoon laughed so hard at what he did see,
That he lost his grip, and fell out of his tree!

This was the first animal to be seen for DAYS
So Grey Wolf grabbed up his spear, screaming, “YIPPY KAYAY!!”

Seeing his dad with the spear, and the raccoon’s dismay,
The boy cupped his hands to his mouth and with a loud voice did say, “Yah te hay, Yah te hay, Yah te hay!”

Now to you and me, it still sounds the same
As though the boy was just really into saying his name

But to the creatures in hiding
His message was clear
And OUT they came
The bears, the badgers, and even the deer

THIS stopped Grey Wolf dead in his tracks
Surrounded by animals, he forgot his attack
For DAYS he’d hunted and there’d been no trace
And NOW there were animals all OVER the place!

With BIGGER game, he let the coon go,
And dropping his spear, he scooped up his bow
Then he gave chase to his son’s forest friends,
Leaving the boy behind to call out his own name over and over again

The animals scattered every which way
When they heard the words,
“Yah te hay, Yah te hay, Yah te HAY!”

Now Grey Wolf had run off in such a rush
That he tripped and fell as he ran through the brush
He fell down a slope which was pretty darn steep
He tumbled and tossed and landed in a heap

The great chief was battered and bruised after his slide
But what was most greatly injured was his hunter's pride
The land’s greatest warrior was stuck in a ditch
Needing a five year olds help to get out
What a SWITCH!

He called to his son
Who was well on his way,
“Yah te hay, Yah te hay, Yah te HAY!”

A den of wolves lived near where Grey Wolf fell
They saw his great tumble and heard the great hunter’s yell
To see him laying there helpless made the wolves YIP with glee
For he had hunted wolves for years endlessly

So they began to move in on the Kikemlo Chief
Who was stuck at the bottom of a ditch that was deep

Seeing the wolves, he yelled to his son not to come near
But with the wolves wild yapping
The boy couldn’t hear
And he arrived at the edge of the ditch just in time
To see a scene as MEAN as any child could find

His dad was surrounded by a den of drooling beasts
Who were intent on turning the great hunter
Into a great big FEAST!

The boy took a breath, and said in his own special way,
“Yah te hay, Yah te hay, Yah te HAY!”

Then all of a sudden to Grey Wolf’s surprise and to his amaze
The pack turned to pups, running to playfully lick the boy’s face!

And then Yah te hay called to his other forest friends
And together they freed the boy’s dad from the ditch he was in
They placed him on the back of a big brown bear
And the wounded warrior was carried back home on soft grizzly hair

The Kikemlo tribe had never seen such a display
As the approaching army of animals led in by Yah te hay

In stunned silence they heard Grey Wolf explain
What the child could do just by saying his name

So he didn’t like weapons
And he didn’t like war,
But since then, he was thought of differently than he had been before

The Kikemlo’s finally came to understand
That the power of peace is greater than a spear in the hand

Great Grey Wolf, meant to build a warrior on that camping trip
But instead of building a warrior - he’d built a relationship
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Post Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:05 am 
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This is endearingly simple and sweet........and instructive, Shaft of Light. It would make a WONDEFUL children's book and I seriously think you should begin to look for an illustrator to work with. Well done.





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Post Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:43 am 
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you need to publish this.....
as suggested; illustrated ... children's lit
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