Earthbound Hearts. Verses of animals and beasts, #5

Earthbound Hearts is a collection of thirty poems spoken through the lives of ground-dwelling animals - creatures who survive not through dominance, but through adaptation, patience, and quiet courage. A hedgehog learns the cost of vulnerability. A tortoise walks toward completion without haste. A mole builds faith beneath unseen soil. A snake sheds yesterday to continue living. Each voice carries a human echo.
Moving between stillness and survival, fear and tenderness, these poems explore what it means to live gently in a demanding world - to endure without hardening, to love without certainty, and to remain soft while staying alive. This is poetry for those who move slowly, feel deeply, and continue anyway.