Where do I belong?

By: Aljan (Sam) 2006-Foever

 

I have seen a bird fly from its nest

Free and happy

Oh do I wonder

What it is like to be free?

 

For many days have I been here

Here where steel surrounds me

I am not harmed

For I am not a prisoner of war

 

The blue sky is above me

And the grass is beneath me

The air is clean and the water crystal clear

But why do I wonder: What is it like to be free?

 

I have been raised here since puphood

Where my sire and dam had been

Long ago have they passed on

I do miss them…

 

The bird sings again yet so far away

My heart longs to be out where she has flown

The wind that blows on me urges me on even more

When I try to follow my heart I find myself before the thing that has kept me from doing so…

 

The thing is silver that is wrapped around itself

It goes around the grass and trees of my area

It is higher then I so I cannot leap over it

It goes deep into the ground so I can not dig

 

It is my guard though lifeless and unmoving

As I see my reflection in the metal bar in front of me

I do wonder: Am I supposed to be here?

Do I belong somewhere else?

 

I am not alone

Two males and three females live in this enclosure as well

When they hear my thoughts the males scoff and laugh

The other two females do so as well but the other female listens, wonders the same as I

 

Humans come and go with each passing day

They come, point, and move on

Thus raises the question

Do I belong here?

 

Is it my purpose to stay here and be looked at?

I hear the bird now, yet so far away it seems to be coming from a dream

Do I belong here where I am fed by creatures not my kind?

Do my children deserve the same fate?

 

I am a wolf

A wolf who is a prisoner

One who can not escape…for I have already become tame

My future will be the same like that of my dam and sire

 

Though I am different to our cousins the dogs

I am equal to what they are looked upon in wolf society

I’ve been fed and trained by Man

For I live in a zoo

 

 

  

 

 

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