Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Bear Aware

While on a walk I met a bear.
We were maybe ten yards apart.
At each other we two did stare.
I was not sure that this was smart.
Perhaps the bear did not like that
I look straight into the bear's eye.
I came in the bear's habitat,
The bear's code of rules should apply.
And so I smile and back away
Back down the path very slowly.
The bear also opts not to stay,
And disappears leaving me be.

Of course I tell the tale, I do.
Maybe the bear tells the tale too.