I’ve never seen a Unicorn, but that’s ok because I know that Unicorns can’t be seen by just anyone. It’s written that you have to be a pure maiden standing in the light of a harvest moon in the deepest part of an old forest. That’s the reason why you don’t see them anymore. All the stories about Unicorns come to us from long, long ago. Some people say that the stories about Unicorns aren’t "True". But I know that something doesn’t have to be “True” to be Right. That’s one thing for certain.
So I know that there’s no what you’d call court-room proof that Unicorns exist. But when you can read about Unicorns, and all the great things they’ve done, and continue to do, to doubt their existence makes no sense. And it makes us smaller to ignore what the Unicorns have to say. The universe becomes a bigger place, and so does your place in it, when you know that there is more to life than what is “True”.
Like for instance the story that we’re created from a drop of Serpent’s blood when a Unicorn pierced its black heart. The Unicorn took the spilled blood and formed it into one of us. That’s why we’re both good and bad. Although we were made by a Unicorn, we came from something bad. While the wickedness of that Serpent will always be inside us, that doesn’t mean we can’t keep trying to be like the Unicorn that made us.
Now some say that that is just a metaphor, or a simile, or an allegory or some such. But I think that which ever way it’s cut your going to be left with a piece of what’s Right. Then there are others which try to make Unicorns out to be normal creatures. They say that Unicorns were originally just oxen that were mistaken as something unearthly. And over the years these mistakes have been perpetuated in the writings about Unicorns. Well that’s their fantasy, and not mine.
And still there are these people that make up all kinds of spooldrangled explanations about why Unicorns can’t exist. Like how it must be impossible for Unicorns to have done the wonderful things you can read about them. They point to the fact that Unicorns have never been seen. They also say that it’s convenient for Unicorns that there are all these loopholes for why Unicorns are never seen. They reckon that it’s a copout for some Unicorn believers to say that the maiden wasn’t pure enough (whatever that means), or the forest wasn’t deep enough. But I say that they can’t see that that is precisely the point. Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Unicorns are pure and noble creatures. Whenever I’ve been in a tight spot in my life, I’ve always thought about what a Unicorn would do in the same situation. I’ve found this has brought me great comfort. And because Unicorns aren’t dispassionate creatures, they have taken a subtle interest in the affairs of Man. They want to help you to help yourself. When something good happens to you, it’s often because a Unicorn has been watching over you; when something bad happens, it's because you’ve ignored the Unicorns.
So fellow Unicorn believers don’t worry about what the naysayers have to say. While the absence of what's Right can never engender belief, it can endanger it. If you give up on what's "True" in favor of what's Right, then you too will be able to experience the joy of life with the Unicorns.
