The rights of feral birds apparently mean nothing

How is it

that 10 Penguins

can be plucked out of their place

in Antartica and shipped

to California the pace

of transfer is remarkable

for experimentation, they

have no right to be where they were put

they all  have to pay

with their lives and their freedom

in Antartica their world

and that because a corporation

feels they should be hurled

across the skies and oceans

to Sea World who will be

carrying out experimentation

really just to see

whether their lung and air sac

problems occur, it seems to me

wrong

and this long

journey

should never have had to be

we need to re wild our continentents

not borrow as we do

every corporation thinks

they have a piece of you

these are Emperor Penguins

they belong where creation put

them in the natural surroundings

where they do place each foot

on those icy wastes under that icy sky

not in some Sea World facility

to be used and may be die

These sweet souls being shipped

via the New Zealand point of call

what we do to our feral friends

is create a vile long haul

is to steal them and to abuse them

for they have no rights to be

where they were

which in essence is tragic it seems to me