What is it like to have a short snout
And large ears like rodents?
A torso draped in black fur
And front limbs flapped in wings?

What is it like to fly
Across the night sky and hang
Upside down from a cave ceiling?

What is it like to pierce the air
Locating beetles with sonar calls?
And net them with tail membrane?

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To be a bat, a creature of the night,
To be a bat, steer senses keen,
To be a bat, live on shadow’s flight.

You ask, what is it like to be a bat?
I say, an experience beyond human might.